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Liberalism is a mental disease after all !?

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      My wild ass guess - conservatives may have more family / community structure in place (on average). That may be correlated to mental health.

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        Many factors at play here. I guess that conservatives are also more hesitant to report such a condition. But I also think that a conservative "mindset" and lifestyle is generally less prone to mental conditions.

        That said, I find all the numbers a little puzzling. More than 15% of all people have been diagnosed with a mental health condition? Maybe I don't know what a mental health condition is, but this sounds absurdly high.

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          Anxiety and/or mild depression is very common.

          Also, seeing those little purple creatures that hide in the walls of houses can make people wrongly assume they're delusional. Those bastards are everywhere! I'm a little surprised the numbers for anxiety are as low as they are. They sneak up on me every night, and tell me secrets, oh, you wouldn't believe what they tell me. About you, Klaus. Yes, I know what you're up to. You pretend to be friendly, but they've told me your real agenda. And I'm on to you! You won't get away with it, you know.

          I was only joking

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            Or, to simplify, the more liberal a person is, the more batshit crazy they are.

            “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

            Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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              How are we defining mental disorder? Being born a female, but identifying as a man, but still being attracted to men so identifying as a gay man, then going to gay men clubs and being turned away because you don’t have man parts then holding a screaming bitch fit is all hunky dory and normal psychological behavior, but feeling a little melancholy is an indication of deep problems requiring heavy doses of antidepressants?

              The Brad

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                Or, to simplify, the more liberal a person is, the more batshit crazy they are.

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                @jolly said in Liberalism is a mental disease after all !?:

                Or, to simplify, the more liberal a person is, the more batshit crazy they are.

                Alternatively, liberals realise the voices in their head aren't real and actually seek medical help.

                I was only joking

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                  How are we defining mental disorder? Being born a female, but identifying as a man, but still being attracted to men so identifying as a gay man, then going to gay men clubs and being turned away because you don’t have man parts then holding a screaming bitch fit is all hunky dory and normal psychological behavior, but feeling a little melancholy is an indication of deep problems requiring heavy doses of antidepressants?

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                  @lufins-dad said in Liberalism is a mental disease after all !?:

                  How are we defining mental disorder? Being born a female, but identifying as a man, but still being attracted to men so identifying as a gay man, then going to gay men clubs and being turned away because you don’t have man parts then holding a screaming bitch fit is all hunky dory and normal psychological behavior, but feeling a little melancholy is an indication of deep problems requiring heavy doses of antidepressants?

                  The transgender people I've known in real life, rather than as an online cliché, have all struggled with depression and significant anxiety.

                  I was only joking

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                  • JollyJ Jolly

                    Or, to simplify, the more liberal a person is, the more batshit crazy they are.

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                    @jolly said in Liberalism is a mental disease after all !?:

                    Or, to simplify, the more liberal a person is, the more batshit crazy they are.

                    Correct

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                    • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

                      @lufins-dad said in Liberalism is a mental disease after all !?:

                      How are we defining mental disorder? Being born a female, but identifying as a man, but still being attracted to men so identifying as a gay man, then going to gay men clubs and being turned away because you don’t have man parts then holding a screaming bitch fit is all hunky dory and normal psychological behavior, but feeling a little melancholy is an indication of deep problems requiring heavy doses of antidepressants?

                      The transgender people I've known in real life, rather than as an online cliché, have all struggled with depression and significant anxiety.

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                      @doctor-phibes said in Liberalism is a mental disease after all !?:

                      @lufins-dad said in Liberalism is a mental disease after all !?:

                      How are we defining mental disorder? Being born a female, but identifying as a man, but still being attracted to men so identifying as a gay man, then going to gay men clubs and being turned away because you don’t have man parts then holding a screaming bitch fit is all hunky dory and normal psychological behavior, but feeling a little melancholy is an indication of deep problems requiring heavy doses of antidepressants?

                      The transgender people I've known in real life, rather than as an online cliché, have all struggled with depression and significant anxiety.

                      Very true.

                      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                      • MikM Mik

                        @doctor-phibes said in Liberalism is a mental disease after all !?:

                        @lufins-dad said in Liberalism is a mental disease after all !?:

                        How are we defining mental disorder? Being born a female, but identifying as a man, but still being attracted to men so identifying as a gay man, then going to gay men clubs and being turned away because you don’t have man parts then holding a screaming bitch fit is all hunky dory and normal psychological behavior, but feeling a little melancholy is an indication of deep problems requiring heavy doses of antidepressants?

                        The transgender people I've known in real life, rather than as an online cliché, have all struggled with depression and significant anxiety.

                        Very true.

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                        @mik said in Liberalism is a mental disease after all !?:

                        @doctor-phibes said in Liberalism is a mental disease after all !?:

                        @lufins-dad said in Liberalism is a mental disease after all !?:

                        How are we defining mental disorder? Being born a female, but identifying as a man, but still being attracted to men so identifying as a gay man, then going to gay men clubs and being turned away because you don’t have man parts then holding a screaming bitch fit is all hunky dory and normal psychological behavior, but feeling a little melancholy is an indication of deep problems requiring heavy doses of antidepressants?

                        The transgender people I've known in real life, rather than as an online cliché, have all struggled with depression and significant anxiety.

                        Very true.

                        I'm not sure what the "online cliche" is supposed to be, of transgender people. Who wouldn't assume that significant confusion, self-hatred, depression, and anxiety, wouldn't be a necessary prerequisite to such a drastic decision as to re-assign your own gender?

                        Education is extremely important.

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                          I think he is referring to individuals as real people, not just the cardboard cutout targets of the online world.

                          “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                            The liberal mind is open to novel concepts. If poorly managed, this can result in too-rapid alterations in cognition, recognition, decision making and ways of being. Which leave him vulnerable to rashness, poor decision making and consequently anxiety and depression.

                            The conservative mind absorbs his last novel concept on or around his fifth birthday. Thereafter, all life encounters are approached with whatever conceptualizations he absorbed at that time, none thereafter, and which are inviolable. He does not suffer doubt. This leads to excessive self-satisfaction, obnoxious complacency, and often a lack of empathy and a coldness of heart. This individual is free of anxiety and is prone to labelling those different from himself as defective.

                            Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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                              The liberal mind is open to novel concepts. If poorly managed, this can result in too-rapid alterations in cognition, recognition, decision making and ways of being. Which leave him vulnerable to rashness, poor decision making and consequently anxiety and depression.

                              The conservative mind absorbs his last novel concept on or around his fifth birthday. Thereafter, all life encounters are approached with whatever conceptualizations he absorbed at that time, none thereafter, and which are inviolable. He does not suffer doubt. This leads to excessive self-satisfaction, obnoxious complacency, and often a lack of empathy and a coldness of heart. This individual is free of anxiety and is prone to labelling those different from himself as defective.

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                              @catseye3

                              @catseye3 said in Liberalism is a mental disease after all !?:

                              The liberal mind is open to novel concepts. If poorly managed, this can result in too-rapid alterations in cognition, recognition, decision making and ways of being. Which leave him vulnerable to rashness, poor decision making and consequently anxiety and depression.

                              The conservative mind absorbs his last novel concept on or around his fifth birthday. Thereafter, all life encounters are approached with whatever conceptualizations he absorbed at that time, none thereafter, and which are inviolable. He does not suffer doubt. This leads to excessive self-satisfaction, obnoxious complacency, and often a lack of empathy and a coldness of heart. This individual is free of anxiety and is prone to labelling those different from himself as defective.

                              Where the hell did that bullshit come from?

                              The Brad

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                              • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

                                @catseye3

                                @catseye3 said in Liberalism is a mental disease after all !?:

                                The liberal mind is open to novel concepts. If poorly managed, this can result in too-rapid alterations in cognition, recognition, decision making and ways of being. Which leave him vulnerable to rashness, poor decision making and consequently anxiety and depression.

                                The conservative mind absorbs his last novel concept on or around his fifth birthday. Thereafter, all life encounters are approached with whatever conceptualizations he absorbed at that time, none thereafter, and which are inviolable. He does not suffer doubt. This leads to excessive self-satisfaction, obnoxious complacency, and often a lack of empathy and a coldness of heart. This individual is free of anxiety and is prone to labelling those different from himself as defective.

                                Where the hell did that bullshit come from?

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                                @lufins-dad said in Liberalism is a mental disease after all !?:

                                Where the hell did that bullshit come from?

                                Me, and it is intended as satire, because oversimplication.

                                Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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                                  @lufins-dad said in Liberalism is a mental disease after all !?:

                                  How are we defining mental disorder? Being born a female, but identifying as a man, but still being attracted to men so identifying as a gay man, then going to gay men clubs and being turned away because you don’t have man parts then holding a screaming bitch fit is all hunky dory and normal psychological behavior, but feeling a little melancholy is an indication of deep problems requiring heavy doses of antidepressants?

                                  The transgender people I've known in real life, rather than as an online cliché, have all struggled with depression and significant anxiety.

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                                  @doctor-phibes said in Liberalism is a mental disease after all !?:

                                  @lufins-dad said in Liberalism is a mental disease after all !?:

                                  How are we defining mental disorder? Being born a female, but identifying as a man, but still being attracted to men so identifying as a gay man, then going to gay men clubs and being turned away because you don’t have man parts then holding a screaming bitch fit is all hunky dory and normal psychological behavior, but feeling a little melancholy is an indication of deep problems requiring heavy doses of antidepressants?

                                  The transgender people I've known in real life, rather than as an online cliché, have all struggled with depression and significant anxiety.

                                  I don’t have enough time right now to post about Matt or Renee and their Transgender stories, but I will try to get to them this weekend. Their experiences are heart breaking and both of their lives have been nearly ruined by the current crusade in the Transgender community. My disparaging comments do not come lightly.

                                  The Brad

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                                    The liberal mind is open to novel concepts. If poorly managed, this can result in too-rapid alterations in cognition, recognition, decision making and ways of being. Which leave him vulnerable to rashness, poor decision making and consequently anxiety and depression.

                                    The conservative mind absorbs his last novel concept on or around his fifth birthday. Thereafter, all life encounters are approached with whatever conceptualizations he absorbed at that time, none thereafter, and which are inviolable. He does not suffer doubt. This leads to excessive self-satisfaction, obnoxious complacency, and often a lack of empathy and a coldness of heart. This individual is free of anxiety and is prone to labelling those different from himself as defective.

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                                    @catseye3 said in Liberalism is a mental disease after all !?:

                                    The conservative mind absorbs his last novel concept on or around his fifth birthday. Thereafter, all life encounters are approached with whatever conceptualizations he absorbed at that time, none thereafter, and which are inviolable. He does not suffer doubt. This leads to excessive self-satisfaction, obnoxious complacency, and often a lack of empathy and a coldness of heart. This individual is free of anxiety and is prone to labelling those different from himself as defective.

                                    Wow. And I thought I could be condescending towards the political opposition.

                                    Education is extremely important.

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                                      @lufins-dad said in Liberalism is a mental disease after all !?:

                                      How are we defining mental disorder? Being born a female, but identifying as a man, but still being attracted to men so identifying as a gay man, then going to gay men clubs and being turned away because you don’t have man parts then holding a screaming bitch fit is all hunky dory and normal psychological behavior, but feeling a little melancholy is an indication of deep problems requiring heavy doses of antidepressants?

                                      The transgender people I've known in real life, rather than as an online cliché, have all struggled with depression and significant anxiety.

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                                      @doctor-phibes said in Liberalism is a mental disease after all !?:

                                      The transgender people I've known in real life, rather than as an online cliché, have all struggled with depression and significant anxiety.

                                      How could it possibly be otherwise???

                                      Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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                                        @lufins-dad said in Liberalism is a mental disease after all !?:

                                        Where the hell did that bullshit come from?

                                        Me, and it is intended as satire, because oversimplication.

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                                        @catseye3 said in Liberalism is a mental disease after all !?:

                                        @lufins-dad said in Liberalism is a mental disease after all !?:

                                        Where the hell did that bullshit come from?

                                        Me, and it is intended as satire, because oversimplication.

                                        Are you satirizing NobodysSock?

                                        Education is extremely important.

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                                        • HoraceH Horace

                                          @catseye3 said in Liberalism is a mental disease after all !?:

                                          The conservative mind absorbs his last novel concept on or around his fifth birthday. Thereafter, all life encounters are approached with whatever conceptualizations he absorbed at that time, none thereafter, and which are inviolable. He does not suffer doubt. This leads to excessive self-satisfaction, obnoxious complacency, and often a lack of empathy and a coldness of heart. This individual is free of anxiety and is prone to labelling those different from himself as defective.

                                          Wow. And I thought I could be condescending towards the political opposition.

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                                          @horace said in Liberalism is a mental disease after all !?:

                                          Wow. And I thought I could be condescending towards the political opposition.

                                          Obviously my approach was wrong. My greater point is that one mindset cannot validly draw sweeping conclusions about an entire other mindset and hope to reach any useful truths. I laid my post out to demonstrate how fucking foolish it is to even try.

                                          Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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