Franklin Said:

what mental health disorders such as bi polar are considered disabilities?

We Answered:

A diagnoses of any mental disorder does not prove disability.

Disability is determined by a person's individual symptoms and how these symptoms prevent the person from getting or keeping gainful employment.

I know people with severe, chronic schizophrenia who work full time. I know people in wheelchairs who work full time.

It's not the diagnoses it's the severity of the symptoms.

There isn't any one diagnoses of any mental disorder that automatically designates one as disabled.

There are many disabled people who have unseen disabilities that is they are not obviously disabled to the average person by sight alone.

HIV infection is one, cancer is another, and many more.

The only time it's ok to assault another is in self defense or defense of another. So if your husband was charged with assault he wasn't defending himself or another.

Ana Said:

Mental Health Disorders in the short story "The Cask of Amontillado"?

We Answered:

Do you think it's rational behaviour to stuff someone into a keg of wine? That would seem to be the prime disorder.

Ida Said:

What is the Christian view of the origin of mental health disorders such as depression?

We Answered:

Oh, no, not at all. I thank God that I live in a time where beter treatment is available for depression. I am religious about taking my anti-depressant because I do NOT want to go to that dark, scary hole again, EVER. I'm a Christian, and part of my depression was feeling like God had abandoned me. I exercised regularly too, which is supposed to help avoid depression. I didn't want to take drugs, thinking I would pull myself up by my own bootstraps, but then came a time when I couldn't find my bootstraps. Zoloft saved my life.

Jenny Said:

Should the medical records of those with mental health disorders be made public?

We Answered:

No, absolutely not.

It's already difficult enough to go to a counselor or a doctor and talk about your problems and how life isn't working for you, etc. If people knew that their secrets would be a matter of public record... then no one would ever seek mental health treatment!

Cho had not committed any crime... and he refused mental health treatment. Even if his records were public, that would not have prevented this tragedy. What would people have done if they had known about his mental health record? Sure, the school could have asked him to leave... but then he would have gone and shot someone else... The laws of this country cannot force someone to get mental health treatment or to lock them up in jail if they have not been convicted of a crime. And it is difficult, if not impossible, to predict someone's behavior or to predict violence.

Louise Said:

What mental health disorders/illnesses are hereditary?

We Answered:

There isn't really a straight up answer..... There is no proof that any of them are.. but there is very strong evidence that many are..... it is also common to have families where there seems to be a tendancy to develop mental disorders but they all have different ones..... Schizophrenia and Bipolar are definitely genetic.... Anxiety Disorders (Panic/OCD, etc...) seem to run in families. Addiction also seems to have a genetic component.... some people just have a genetic lack of resistance to addiction, especially alcoholism. Now it seems that there may be a genetic predisposition to developing personality disorders.. which would explain why given the same upbringing some people end up ill and others end up fine..... No mental disorder is guaranteed to develop given a certain set of genes..... even if both of your parents have Bipolar there is only a 20% chance of you getting it.... even in identical twins, if one twin has it the other only has a 50% chance of getting it..... So no absolute proof that any of them are genetic but lots of evidence that most, if not all, of them have some sort of genetic component, whether directly due to genes (like Bipolar) or just a disposition that leaves you suseptible (like addiction and personality disorders).