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Do you consider your child to be mentally ill?
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<blockquote data-quote="graceupongrace" data-source="post: 296795" data-attributes="member: 7371"><p>What I really like about that description is that it makes it clear that the behavior is a symptom (or a result) of the illness.</p><p></p><p>We really face a sort of Catch-22. Because of the stigma associated with "mental illness," we avoid those words and our kids are seen as "bad." If we use the words "mental illness," they're seen as "crazy."</p><p></p><p>I know someone who uses the words "brain chemistry dysfunction," and I'm starting to like that description. It implies illness, or at least something that can't be helped, or something that parents didn't cause.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="graceupongrace, post: 296795, member: 7371"] What I really like about that description is that it makes it clear that the behavior is a symptom (or a result) of the illness. We really face a sort of Catch-22. Because of the stigma associated with "mental illness," we avoid those words and our kids are seen as "bad." If we use the words "mental illness," they're seen as "crazy." I know someone who uses the words "brain chemistry dysfunction," and I'm starting to like that description. It implies illness, or at least something that can't be helped, or something that parents didn't cause. [/QUOTE]
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