magic-cat
Mother to Many
The difference is they are not a threat to themselves or other people. They just die...........
In mental illness they can become a threat to themselves and others rapidly and without waring. That is why the courts should either institutionalize them or make them take the meds.
You know what I think it is turbo? In TRUE mental illness they are not "choosing" it. They are overcome by it, and have no power over it. I think in those cases, you get someone like Andrea Yates. In Cindy's case, I honestly believe it is all evolving from her conscious choices that she is making, and she chooses the drama, she chooses the fight, she chooses the chaos, she is CHOOSING to lose her mind, and it is working very effectively. BUT it is not something that she has no control over. She is in command of it, and could stop it if she CHOSE to do so. She does not choose this. She chooses for it to go on and on and for the rabbit hole to go deeper and deeper, and as Alice in Wonderland discovered, nothing makes any more sense once you choose to go into the rabbit hole and go through the little narrow doorway which leads to insanity. This is not something meds could cure. This is something that only Cindy herself can CHOOSE and so therefore does not qualify as "mentally ill". It is a chosen state in this and many cases and not an inflicted one.