But you get the point, right?

So if we endure all kinds of tests in order to release the “demons” or “the disorder,” if people who had multiple personalities and voices are one day the majority, then all of us who are lacking them would be considered developmentally disabled, right?

We don’t endure brain tests in order to “fix” a person who can’t use a certain part of their brain…we have just come to the conclusion that they have some sort of brain damage and can’t function as well as others who don’t have brain damage. So why do we endure tests in order to get rid of mental disorders? Maybe they are using MORE of their brain (we have talked about this), maybe they are just functioning on a HIGHER level then the majority of people do… so why do we assume there is something wrong with them, when really, there may just be something wrong with US?

Something like that, maybe?

What about this for a thought…

Who’s to say that WE aren’t the ones with the mental illness? Maybe we are all supposed to have different personalities and/or hear voices…but since there are more of us who don’t (supposedly..lol) we have all formed an alliance and made everyone else the “different ones.”
What would it be like if the roles were reversed?

(Yes… I’m leading you somewhere with this…)

If your cousin wasn’t being bothered by his condition (and it wasn’t hurting him or anyone else), I’m not surprised he never realized something wasn’t quite right.

Do you think we should leave people with “mental illnesses” alone unless they become dangerous to themselves or others… or should we try to treat them regardless?

I’d like to think that the people who do have multiple personalities, schitzophrenia, etc.. are actually pretty used to having another side of themselves, or hearing other voices…and are probably relatively normal in their own eyes…and it’s when someone TELLS them that they are crazy that they start realizing it may not be normal..and then it freaks them out.
My Uncle has schitzophrenia, and he really didn’t realize that anything was wrong until he explained to his Dad that the reason he up and left to go visit him from Arkansas to South Carolina in the middle of the night is because the radio was telling him to go find his true love, and his dad pretty much freaked out. What if nobody had reacted to it the way they did? ya know?
But who knows.