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Reviews

[Gareth Hopkins]

Wow! So this is coming from the heart, huh? I have to admit, this made me laugh, not because I was genuinely amused, but because I've kind of been saying exactly the same thing for absolutely years. To be quite honest, I thought I was the only one...
That said, I have to agree wth some of the other reviewers, and whilst I agree whole-heartedly with what you're saying, you do kind of take a shovel to this one and beat the reader round the head with it, you know? From my point of view, I didn't mind (did I mention I agree with you?) but some of the 'sheep' are obviously going to have problems. Thanks for making me smile, though.

[Steven Szepietowski]

I don't believe that mental illness persay diminishes anything that great minds did in their time...I think it only is a problem in the mind's of people who don't think mental illness is a real problem. I agree with you, modeern society is most likely to blame for our many troubles with our sanity, but there is no real way to solve that.

I also don't believe that mental illness is an illusion...Although RD Lainge had probably the best approach at trying to manage those who have the most severe mental illness, and that isn't to medicate and throw them away, but to dialogue, and to understand what their minds are thinking and what it is they are communicating.

This was quite thought provoking, and there is something about designer drugs being pushed on us that seems very orwellian indeed. I agree with the other poster, caps doesn't necessarily mean emphasis, I don't really like using caps all that much. A good rant...

[Ilene M.W. Lush]

it ain't broke. no need to fix it. sedation and medication are preferable to sedition. rage on.

[Jonathan Bryant Dean]

I agree with what you have written.
I have written similar pieces in the past myself, though I have come to terms with my own mental illness issues in the meantime.

My own issues are quite real, and include some explanation of my problems in the past. I have been diagnosed and I am being medicated for schizophrenia and severe clinical depression. I have no delusions of grandeur, and I by no means place myself in the ranks of Einstein, but I do recognise the issues of eccentricity being confused with insanity.
I do not feel that we can diagnose a corpse, any more than we can gain anything but some sense of false comfort from such a thing.
I do believe the old quote, "There is a fine line between genius and madness.", but I also feel that we should leave well enough alone, when we consider those that are already gone.
Well put, and I am too long winded, so I will end this, before my comment becomes longer than your original post!
I like what you wrote by the way.
JonBoy

[defenestrate samie {ego..]

You know how to code. Cool. Biggy Size my font (loljk). Anyway, I don't know anything about what you're writing about, but it seems you have a passion for arguaing your points. Sounds to my like someone chased you around the house with horse pills when you were younger. We all hae our bad experiences though. Good luck.

[J. Swaney]

A creative mind is rich and wonderful. To people who don't have one, it is easily interpreted as illness of one sort or another. As for me I would sooner die, than surrender this bit of hidden magic that lives in me. In my mind I am almost like a god building and destroying lifes and worlds at will. In my mind the power is real and powerful. I have been diagnosed, I have been offered the medication to normalize me and make me another sheep in the flock. I too could be cured and another one of the walking dead, but I took a pass.

Thanks For The Read !!

J.S.

[Nicholas Goodman]

Just how common is disease? I'm talking about so called physical illness. In the past, most disease was unidentifiable, the realm of mystery.

Would you tell someone with diabetes to just deal with it?

Why would labeling Einstein as autisitc in any way demean his genius or his work?

After the mysteries of the human body were solved (or at least the puzzles discovered), people began to work on the mind, the human brain. What was once considered weakness or the work of demons is now known to have definite biological causes.

Are you upset the pillars of history you admire are being examined for mental illness? Why would that bother you? Would studying them for possible physical ailments also annoy you?

Could it not be that the human brain is as prone to malfunction as the rest of the human body? Or would you throw out all of modern medicine?

Your passion in this rant is merely covering up the truth: your prejudice. You identify the "mentally ill" as crazy or their illnesses as imagined.

If you don't like the suggestion you should be medicated, fine. But maybe you should examine yourself. Why are you so against the idea? What emotions are associated with this ideea? Is it perhaps fear, fear you may actually (gasp) have a mental illness?

As for the essay itself, it was just badly written. ALL CAPS DOES NOT SIGNIFY EMPHASIS. Capitalizing the First Letter of a Word does not make it a proper noun.
I can't make out a thesis or cogent arguments. This is, as has been said, a rant, but as it is in the essay category, I've reviewed it as such. Regardless of my disagreement with you, if you had actually constructed a proper essay, I'd have scored it fairly. I know that seems to be the opposite of the way things are done around here, but I'm not much of a follower.

[J. Swaney]

A creative mind is rich and wonderful. To people who don't have one, it is easily interpreted as illness of one sort or another. As for me I would sooner die, than surrender this bit of hidden magic that lives in me. In my mind I am almost like a god building and destroying lifes and worlds at will. In my mind the power is real and powerful. I have been diagnosed, I have been offered the medication to normalize me and make me another sheep in the flock. I too could be cured and another one of the walking dead, but I took a pass.

Thanks For The Read !!

J.S.

[" I Love These Flo..]

This is a fantastic, well-written rant. I love it and hope that everyone read it because, simply, it is important. Just Wonderful, I can't even pick out my favorite line, there are just too many.

[Kimberly Tosti]

HAHA I like your point of veiw. I didn't know they were labeling our history makers as such. Very interesting.

[Melissa M.]

You have a valid point and I applaud you for writing this to make it. However as a writing, there are some distractions. Are all of the parenthesis really necessary? They snag the flow quite a bit and disrupt the overall feel of the piece. What audience was this written for? I know you chose "everyone", but consider your language. It has been my experience that if you wish to be taken seriously (as a person, not necessarily as a writer) then using foul language is more of a turn off than anything. As I said you make a valid point, but with that language in there it demeans your overall piece. On the other hand, it does add emotion to it as well. So, I guess it just really depends on what you're going for.

As for the subject, I completely agree. I actually find it humorous that today's society is labeling past genius' as having varius mental "problems". If that is the case, then will the problem children of today be our next world leaders?