Hello, guess who got told that he was totally wrong about his own brain nightmares?

[palominocorn]

What is it about mental illness that makes people declare, to the faces of mentally ill people, that it's 100% genetic and that there's no possible way that adversity or a lack of support to deal with said adversity could have contributed in any way?

It is the most bizarre belief and I would like to have a few stern words with whoever is propagating it.

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[yvannairie]

Well, except when you mention some experience and they 100% start acting like that is the source of all your issues. (But this one, you can also get from mentally ill people)

[palominocorn]

Ah yes, because complicated phenomena like cluster B personality transplants can totally be reduced down to one and exactly one variable! /S

Weirdly, I've gotten both of these mostly from mentally ill people. Who, you'd think, would know better than to lecture someone else about their own brain stuff. (I had a veeeeeery interesting conversation with someone named psychoticpoodle or something who insisted that mental illness had nothing to do with trauma. That... did not go over well with my followers.)