Posted: Jan 17, 2012 10:31 am
by logical bob
Median, I think you're in danger of defining almost anything outside normal behaviour as a mental illness. This isn't good. As well as being a means of social control much used in totalitarian states it belittles the difficulties faced by people with real mental illnesses.

Re your claim that anorexics are forced into "psych treatment" - what form do you think this treatment takes? You can't helpfully compel someone to undergo psychological therapies because they only work if the person buys into the process and makes them work.