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People With Personality Disorders Can Destroy Your Life
They are more common than you think
Let’s get this out of the way first: Mental illness is a term used for a wide range of conditions that include various mental health disorders. This article addresses only one section of it: The personality disorders. Any reference made to mental illness refers to the personality disorders only and is used synonymously to signal the seriousness of this condition.
Let’s be honest, it happens quite often that you think: “this person is sick”. But you don’t mean it. Not that you’re sorry for calling out someone’s idiocy — what you don’t consider is — what if the person IS actually sick?
In a clinical, expert-verified way — sick. Not the ‘crazy’ that you associate with their behavior, but the ‘crazy’ that experts call mental illness.
We use these figures of speech, but how often do we think that a person may actually be ill? To what extent would your reaction change if you knew they were sick?
Who is sick and who is ‘crazy’?
When you think of mental illness, you think of people in a dire mental state. A state that clearly shows that something with the person “isn’t right“. At the low-end of craziness, we often see homeless people talking to…
