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Wow! Maybe mental illness does not exist. Maybe it's all in my head! I have to laugh at people who walk around touting their "certain" ideas that a thing "is" or it "isn't." How do they know? If they are a scientist, maybe they've compiled much datum that tells them what they are professing. If they are a part of the general population, maybe fear and ignorance drives them to such ideas. Datum is biased. It is. And ignorance is bliss until it's happening to you and then it's reality, whatever you would label it. It always blows my mind that these kinds of questions are still being asked when there is so much carnage in our society due to behavioral health problems. If it's too scary to call it mental illness, fine, call it whatever feels more PC.

I wonder at those who think that mental illness is not biological. What, because it's about chemicals and you can't see them, then they don't exist? So based on that logic, air doesn't exist either. As for comparing problems with the heart, kidneys, intestines, liver, whatever, to the brain, well you lose a kidney you get a new one or die. you lose you intestines or your liver, you die. You lose your heart or lungs, you die. See a pattern here? You lose your mind? You keep on living. That would be the difference in comparisons. Society is not afraid of humans who lose pieces of their organs to accidents or defects. It IS afraid of people who lose their minds and are termed as "crazy," due to extreme and different behavior. So let us not make comparisons between the physical body organs and the mind, for the outcomes are very different.

As for being able to determine mental illness by physical example? Actually, science has made great strides in neuropsychology and neurobiology. Scanning the brain has allowed determination of schizophrenia. Also the discoveries of cortisol in the blood stream of those with bipolar II could help in diagnosing down the road. Cortisol is a part of adrenaline, long story short, and when a person is under duress, that fight or flight response kicks in and cortisol is produced. Eventually a person's hypothalamus sends a message saying, "Okay, we're done with the cortisol. Let's shut it down." And the cortisol is shut down. But in the bipolar mind, the nerve endings have been damaged due to brain damage incurred by bipolar CHEMICAL IMBALANCES, and they are retracted into the hypothalamus. So the cortisol continues to pump through the body, eventually causing

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