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by dindumuffin 2989 days ago
If mental illnesses are underdiagnosed, then it might be that the majority of the population could have some kind of disorder of varying scales on any spectrum.

With how many different things can go wrong with our complex neurologies combined with tens of milennia of racial inbreeding it'd be surprising for anyone to have completely spotless mental health, just as few men and women are blessed with perfect bodily health free of rashes and allergies and proportional assymetries.

Personally, I have a variety of brain related disorders which I must contend with on a daily basis but also make me good at spotting others with my experience across anbroad range of symtpoms. So when someone says to me "everyone has a mental health disorder" I just assume that they have a mental disorder and agree with them.

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>> So when someone says to me "everyone has a mental health disorder" I just assume that they have a mental disorder and agree with them.

I totally agree with this. If there's no one around you might even say "yeah, wanna share, what's yours?"

"There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who have faced their issues and are a work in progress, and those who have not." Yeah yeah, projection, black and white, all-or-nothing, splitting, etc... It's still a fun thing to say.