A mental illness doesn't have to be a purely internal thing. Many of them are just kindling building up in your mind waiting for an external spark to set them ablaze. That's why addicts are rarely just addicted to one thing, they have a flaw in their mind that led them to be able to form such a strong conditioned response in the first place.
Panic attacks, sexual dysfunctions, and a whole slew of depression symptoms are also reliant heavily on external triggers to activate. Heck even schizos are usually hallucinating based on their childhood and modern politics.
Also, I agree most people who claim to have a mental illness don't. But there is a point where you can also just be a shithead long enough to create your own illness. Much like that episode of South Park where Cartman fakes Tourettes long enough to give himself it, you can just be an angry and violent asshole for so long you literally lose the ability to control yourself and your thoughts/emotions generate extreme responses on impulse.
I don't know enough about OJ's son to really have an opinion on why he might be the way he is with any confidence, but Conduct Disorders to ODD are prevalent enough among black boys 2 men that they have become unsurprising when one has them. Much the same way Precocious Puberty used to be a panic inducing biological problem for girls and has now just become the accepted norm.
A mental illness doesn't have to be a purely internal thing. Many of them are just kindling building up in your mind waiting for an external spark to set them ablaze. That's why addicts are rarely just addicted to one thing, they have a flaw in their mind that led them to be able to form such a strong conditioned response in the first place.
Panic attacks, sexual dysfunctions, and a whole slew of depression symptoms are also reliant heavily on external triggers to activate. Heck even schizos are usually hallucinating based on their childhood and modern politics.
Also, I agree most people who claim to have a mental illness don't. But there is a point where you can also just be a shithead long enough to create your own illness. Much like that episode of South Park where Cartman fakes Tourettes long enough to give himself it, you can just be an angry and violent asshole for so long you literally lose the ability to control yourself and your thoughts/emotions generate extreme responses on impulse.
I don't know enough about OJ's son to really have an opinion on why he might be the way he is with any confidence, but Conduct Disorders to ODD are prevalent enough among black boys 2 men that they have become unsurprising when one has them. Much the same way Precocious Puberty used to be a panic inducing biological problem for girls and has now just become the accepted norm.