fearandrhetoric4dummies - You are misunderstanding what im saying. People are not taught how to live. They do not teach this in school. Divorces, break ups, financial ruin.....etc. Im not saying they should teach about mental illness at schools, im saying they should ready people for living better. They teach math and history every year in schools.....yet they dont prepare someone for a disaster in living....and yes self discipline can be taught and if it was you would have a very respectful and well natured society that knows how to react instead of self distruction... unlike all these pudes with an irrational sense of self entitlement we have amongst us now.

I see a lot of parents who want to jump on the "my kid is ADH or ADD" bandwagon as soon as parenting gets a little bit hard. Give Suzie or Timmy a pill. That will calm them down so we can be lazy and stay on Facebook all day or watch TV all day. The lack of Fathers, or Mothers in single family homes, the lack of exercise and proper nutrition, and many other issues are starting to show us a generation of kids who will be a mental health risk.
The pharmaceuticals have shoved so many pills at us, adults and kids are only a dose of Zantax, or Cialis away from life altering side affects. Take a pill to get some sleep, and to get rid of the restless leg, and the snoring and the dreaming and take a pill to wake up followed by a 5 hour energy, with an allergy pill for lunch and a diet pill for dinner.....and on and on. Peace

Unfortunately, Sigma40's trite and media-influenced lack of understanding about mental illness is all too widespread. (Of course, then he gets on his favorite peeve that sometimes there is a news story about upcoming weather, which he deems "dramatization", while the rest of us deem it "planning".)
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But I just don't know how to educate the general public if after years of more and more awareness we are still left with these attitudes. Talk about getting depressed.

Self discipline? For people that are truly ill (there are many) that is a silly term to use. Believe it or not there are millions of people that dont have a choice whether they are sick or not, its not always linked to choices.

tAking shots at public education and the media over the lack of understanding of mental health? Might want to go see someone about that Sigma, you are truly a clown!!
These are sensative issues that need to be addressed by mental health professionals that have been properly trained and educated. To speak as if paranoid schitzophrenia or clinical depression should be addressed in elementary, middle, or high school? What are you talking about? I dont think that you even know, so stuck in ideological talking points you just spew out some nonsense about educating youngsters and the evil media, 2 subjects that are completely irrelavant here. IF you want people to be educated about menatl illness, GO TO COLLEGE and graduate, THEN go to GRAD school and graduate, then internships and a Doctorate degree. These are the people that are qualified to speak about mental illness, not people that read self help books. Get a clue!! Grow up!! This should not be a partisan issue, but the fisrst post NONSENSE.

Listen, I get it. I know why people end up with emotional problems, and the problem lies mostly with childhood traumas and improper discipline left unchecked and unnoticed by those who could mitigate it. Parent are stressed, and they always take it out on the those they are closest to. Broken families, parents who fight, poor nutrition, refined sugar, no exercise, TV babysitting, lack of positive reinforcement, negative attention, ect, the list goes on... These kids grow up with many forms of emotional problems coupled with a drug addiction that the schools pressured parents into because they were stressed out and looking for the easy way out. Ergo, major problems as adults, which is now hardwired into their subconscious. I have railed on this topic before, but I guess no one was listening.

Education and self discipline can go a long way when dealing with depression. But our failure of an education system does nothing to address either in schools so what is to be expected? In a society where no one is taught values and how to deal with real life, its going to self implode....I would also say that the so called "experts" are not if they are failing at the attempt they are making.
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You can also thank the media for a large contribution to all the depressed people. The dramatization of everything is ridiculous. Even the weather channel this morning acted as if the end of the world was up on us.