Wednesday, March 26, 2008

New Mental Illness

A new mental illness is upon us. This mental illness plagues users of cell phones and blackberrys. They say that people are mentally ill because they are texting people too much. My guess is, had a newer mental illness that I have discovered been around when the telephone was introduced, people would have been talking about the new mental illness of people who talk on the phone too long. They would have argued that it is totally a different phenomena then talking to someone in person. Much like how iPods are more dangerous then their predecessor the walkman. Sure they are both mobile music devices but iPods are new and scary. In other words old people don't understand them.
You may wonder what this other new mental illness is that I have discovered. Of course, it should be known I hold no degree in any psychological field or any field for that matter. Still I think, I make just as much sense as the ones with letters after their names. My new mental illness is a mental illness that attempts to show that mental illness explains all behavior that doesn't fit some "norm".
Though at what point do we realize that abnormal is normal since everyone will have been diagnosed with some form of mental illness which in turn will turn the non-mentally ill into the mentally ill and the mentally ill into the norm?

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