I agree that it is often misdiagnosed or over diagnosed and sometimes the diagnoses are used for nefarious purposes...either to discredit someone or help someone escape responsibility when they should be held accountable.

everyone thinks they are a psychiatrist...as soon as someone does something we don;t understand others will make judgements about their mental fitness (again, especially if they do not conform, or there is a motive to discredit them).

children are diagnosed too frequently and medicated to control them. I have had parents complain about violence in young people who are fine when with me and I'd be more than happy to have them in my home. Have had some of them as guests, actually without even a hint of inappropriate, argumentative, or violent behavior.

so the environment is also a factor as well as nutrition in behavior...to a degree....but a true mental illness is something that is pretty obvious (at least to a professional) and not the same thing as not understanding the differences in others, or the need to learn to communicate and/or control ones emotions (in the context of no threat to self or others).

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