It's more than just a word, a thought, a feeling. It's your life.

The one thing I don't like about the above image is that it gives you a sense that mental disorders are diseases like cancer, but they're really not. I don't see them as diseases, considering you cannot catch them. You can inherit a few of them, but you also cannot cure them. Sure, they can be treated. And most will not kill you. If you look at a disease, most can be cured, a lot can kill you, and they are able to be spread. So really, how can they be diseases? I know I've said something a lot similar to this in a previous post, but to be fair, the topic was rather similar.

The point of the image is to show that just like cancer, a mental disorder is something you cannot control. Honestly, if we could control it, then why would we pick having them? They're torture to have. And it's not like we want to live with them.

I myself know quite a bit about a few disorders. The packet we did in Psych, I knew pretty much every disorder. I just love learning about them. I wish people would set their ignorance aside and actually read about them. There are very few disorders that could actually make you lash out. It's sad what our society has come to.

Also, Dissociative Identity Disorder confused me. I don't like how it said DID was "formerly MPD" as MPD is slightly different. I know that with MPD, you can be completely unaware of any of your alternate personalities. There was one case about a woman who didn't know she had it, but thought that her other personalities were completely different people. I don't exactly know the logic on that, but. I also know that DID, some can be unaware of their other personality, while some are aware. I've heard that your other personalities can communicate with you. Kind of like switching, maybe? I'm not sure how true that is...

And then there's Hypochondriasis. Thinking you have an illness when you probably don't, not believing doctors when they say you're healthy, etc. Do you have to be diagnosed with that? I mean, you could look up symptoms for something and go, "Oh, I must have this disorder." Would that just be self-diagnosing? To me, it seems like it would go hand in hand with Hypochondriasis.

I wish we had learned about more disorders.