Reply #13: I sure hope

[mrcheerful]

you didn't take my post as saying mental illness is a joke. I'm been living with bi polar disorder for 37 years and know its not fun. If you don't get meds prescribed you will tend to self medicate with alcohol and street drugs, which then leads into other problems, like addiction. I was just trying to compare fundies, kool aid drinkers and wing nuts with real mental illnesses, which by the way, makes me wonder how many of them are untreated mentally ill people. Their behaviors are very close to people that have mental disorders, religion is one escape that mentally ill use in place of chemicals. With the way repigs view mental illness i would also play into the belief that theres nothing wrong with them. Remember mentally ill people look for outside causes and ignore that it comes from with in them selves.