Rage Addiction and Conduct Disorders are pretty standard mental illnesses. They are also ones that the only real cure for is either incredibly difficult struggles to change over years of therapy or being literally lobotomized on meds (this is the option most take).
Unless you want to argue that they are so common among a certain demographic that they cease to be mental illness and are just the norm. Which might be a tree to bark on.
Conduct Disorder is basically used as a generalized diagnosis for children who have an extreme need to act up. Basically just misbehaving to a point where its beyond normal and not entirely related to poor environment, and quickly leading to them committing acts of legitimate violence and crime. Can range from just a little shithead to an outright monster.
In adults its usually called Oppositional Defiant Disorder, which is basically the same thing but a little less openly violent and criminal and usually more passive aggressive and snotty. Probably not relevant in this case, but I don't know the kid specifically in this case.
Also addiction is one of the most cornerstone mental illnesses possible. Because every addiction is either a conditioned response (all mental) that is maladaptive or a chemical issue. Which if we throw out mental illnesses that are chemically based, then bipolar and depression and a lot of others will be thrown out too.
Which again, I'm not opposed to that idea but its a pretty big discussion.
Okay, that makes more sense, I know of Oppositional Defiant Disorder. I guess I'm a little jaded that I'm skeptical because of the amount of people who claim to have a mental illness, but are just being maladaptive.
I get the argument on addiction, but I guess the reason I don't see addiction as a mental illness is because I see it as an external factor generating that chemical response.
Those drugs probably zonked him out because he doesn't have a real mental illness, and is instead a raving lunatic.
Rage Addiction and Conduct Disorders are pretty standard mental illnesses. They are also ones that the only real cure for is either incredibly difficult struggles to change over years of therapy or being literally lobotomized on meds (this is the option most take).
Unless you want to argue that they are so common among a certain demographic that they cease to be mental illness and are just the norm. Which might be a tree to bark on.
I'm not familiar with 'conduct disorders'. But, rage addiction sounds like an addiction to me. So I don't think of that as a mental illness.
Conduct Disorder is basically used as a generalized diagnosis for children who have an extreme need to act up. Basically just misbehaving to a point where its beyond normal and not entirely related to poor environment, and quickly leading to them committing acts of legitimate violence and crime. Can range from just a little shithead to an outright monster.
In adults its usually called Oppositional Defiant Disorder, which is basically the same thing but a little less openly violent and criminal and usually more passive aggressive and snotty. Probably not relevant in this case, but I don't know the kid specifically in this case.
Also addiction is one of the most cornerstone mental illnesses possible. Because every addiction is either a conditioned response (all mental) that is maladaptive or a chemical issue. Which if we throw out mental illnesses that are chemically based, then bipolar and depression and a lot of others will be thrown out too.
Which again, I'm not opposed to that idea but its a pretty big discussion.
Okay, that makes more sense, I know of Oppositional Defiant Disorder. I guess I'm a little jaded that I'm skeptical because of the amount of people who claim to have a mental illness, but are just being maladaptive.
I get the argument on addiction, but I guess the reason I don't see addiction as a mental illness is because I see it as an external factor generating that chemical response.