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>The main reason is that almost all content online comes from people who are mentally ill. I wasn’t brave enough to say this, but since you have, I want to agr
by HomeGear 4y ago
>The main reason is that almost all content online comes from people who are mentally ill.
I wasn’t brave enough to say this, but since you have, I want to agree. Gaming, Discord, forums, etc - filled to the brink with mentally ill individuals.
- tester756 4y agowhat "mentally ill" means in this context? like literally?
- swayvil 4y agoSuffering a distortion of perspective. From focus, trauma, drugs, obsession...
- mattbrewsbytes 4y agoThere’s a huge difference between having a distorted world view because of ignorance or knowledge or whatever and being clinically diagnosed with a mental illness. For example, someone that seems very self involved, a trait of immaturity and youth, isn’t the same as someone with narcissistic personality disorder as defined here: https://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/courses/materials/Narc.Pers.DSM.pdf https://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/courses/materials/Narc.P...
- swayvil 4y agoNever discount the power of long, intense, sustained focus to wreck your perspective.
- Der_Einzige 4y agoI'm glad you and the one above you said it. My addiction to discord scares me more than anything - because everyone else on there is extremely mentally ill... So why am I drawn there? Oh no!