I won't say you are crazy, you just view the world in a different maner than many other people. Society has always viewed the many forms of mental illness from a fearful perspective. People are always afraid of things they don't understand and especially when there is no obvious cause. A broken leg is plain to see, but hearing voices is not a visible problem.
Now, if you want crazy, meaning illogical, mean, and stupid you will only need to look at America and see the way we treat people with mental disabilites. Excluding the ones we elect to public office, we either treat mental illness with incarseration or let these people live on the streets before we lock them up for being homeless. Many of the crazy people we have elcted to public office have convienced much of the American public this is more cost effective than properly funding public health care for those with mental problems and or drug additiction. These are many of the same people who have outlawed abortion, saying that all life is sacred except when we need to bomb certain countries, allow people to die from the lack of food or proper medical care or mandate water breaks for people working in extreme weather conditions.
I don't want to offer an opinion on the Danish treatment of mental illness, since I know so little about this subject.
I will offer an opinion on the culinary tastes of a certain writer who I follow on a regular basis. I prefer my raw tuna on rice, with some wasabi and soy sauce - peanut butter oversomes the delicate flavor of the tuna. Rather than questioning the sanity of this writer's food choices, I will only say he has too much water in his alcohol system and this is having an adverse reaction on his tast buds.
Mental illness is always misjudged and stigmatized everywhere.
Surely many places have come a long way in the last century, but still a tremendous distance to go.
Fantastic piece, as always.
Thanks Robert, I hope everything is going well with you and yours.
I won't say you are crazy, you just view the world in a different maner than many other people. Society has always viewed the many forms of mental illness from a fearful perspective. People are always afraid of things they don't understand and especially when there is no obvious cause. A broken leg is plain to see, but hearing voices is not a visible problem.
Now, if you want crazy, meaning illogical, mean, and stupid you will only need to look at America and see the way we treat people with mental disabilites. Excluding the ones we elect to public office, we either treat mental illness with incarseration or let these people live on the streets before we lock them up for being homeless. Many of the crazy people we have elcted to public office have convienced much of the American public this is more cost effective than properly funding public health care for those with mental problems and or drug additiction. These are many of the same people who have outlawed abortion, saying that all life is sacred except when we need to bomb certain countries, allow people to die from the lack of food or proper medical care or mandate water breaks for people working in extreme weather conditions.
I don't want to offer an opinion on the Danish treatment of mental illness, since I know so little about this subject.
I will offer an opinion on the culinary tastes of a certain writer who I follow on a regular basis. I prefer my raw tuna on rice, with some wasabi and soy sauce - peanut butter oversomes the delicate flavor of the tuna. Rather than questioning the sanity of this writer's food choices, I will only say he has too much water in his alcohol system and this is having an adverse reaction on his tast buds.