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Mental Illness

When you realize you are debating someone who may be mentally ill, you

  • Keep going

    Votes: 1 6.7%
  • Pull back

    Votes: 4 26.7%
  • See if you can trigger a meltdown

    Votes: 3 20.0%
  • Check to see if they're okay

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Ask Captain Courtesy to see if they're okay

    Votes: 2 13.3%
  • Other

    Votes: 5 33.3%

  • Total voters
    15
I'd say at least half of you need professional help. If not socially or personally, developmentally.
 
I wondered who the "other" was. Now I need to wonder who the other, "other" was. :D

Always make your poll results public, so you don't have to wonder who voted for what. So far, I'm the only one in the "trigger the meltdown" camp and that largely depends if I have a reason to like the person or not.
 
I am. I lack the accent, the mannerism, the pasty complextion, and I have spent most of my adult life living elsewhere, but I am.

Me too, but I never left (except for basic training and AIT at two different bases). So all told, I've been gone less than six months.
 
I'd say at least half of you need professional help. If not socially or personally, developmentally.

Don't suppose you're in the half of the camp you are describing.
 
Me too, but I never left (except for basic training and AIT at two different bases). So all told, I've been gone less than six months.

I never really had the Minnesotan "way." Being mostly of Mediterranean decent sets you apart all by itself - at 5'4" (which is the national average for women) I'm "short" in Minnesota. I am also the only person who gets a tan.

I consciously fought the accent and the Minnesota nice all my life. I can't stand it!!

So as a result, I have a perfect CNN accent and I'm generally a bitch. ;)
 
Always make your poll results public, so you don't have to wonder who voted for what. So far, I'm the only one in the "trigger the meltdown" camp and that largely depends if I have a reason to like the person or not.

nah Im there too! its just I picked other because like I said ive done many of them.
but like you it depends on the poster. "liking" them or not really doesnt factor but KNOWING howw they are on this board does, theres a handful of extreme righties on here I love to poke at and watch them melt about 2 extreme lefties and one lib that i am quit entertained by watching them talk endless circles and ignore truths LOL

I personally dont/cant get emotional on these boards besides humor because, well, . . . . because they are message boards lol

Some people you can stir their pot with logic and I can just tell they are punching thier keyboard or kicking thier cat LMAO
 
I never really had the Minnesotan "way." Being mostly of Mediterranean decent sets you apart all by itself - at 5'4" (which is the national average for women) I'm "short" in Minnesota. I am also the only person who gets a tan.

I consciously fought the accent and the Minnesota nice all my life. I can't stand it!!

So as a result, I have a perfect CNN accent and I'm generally a bitch. ;)

I'm 5'1/2". I never cared how tall everybody else was.
 
I'm usually not aggressive when conveying my opinions. I feel it does little in a debate. Persons are rarely swayed from their stanch beliefs. I generally state my opinion the best I can and let readers come to their own conclusions.

Pressing my opinion to entice reaction serves little purpose as far as I am concerned. Agitating persons for a response give me no enjoyment.

I feel some people just cannot accept that others do not share the same opinion as themselves and try and beat a point across. I feel this approach does little good and often times only enforces peoples reluctance to view things in a different light.
 
No, not at all. I'm saying that sometimes we treat people with kid gloves when they don't want or need to be treated that way. Like an ignorant lady who speaks slowly to the guy with down syndrome bagging her groceries. We worry about their mental state so we treat them like an uncooked egg, which may not be as helpful as we think.

I agree with you. And your above comment, that's certain not minimizing their mental disability and recognizing there are persons underneath their mental disability (disorder, illness).

I think that it's obvious that functionality is different with different mental disabilities. And people who have mental disabilities, like normal (relative term), aren't made from the same cookie cutter. People cope and react differently to their respective disability (disorder, illness).

I think that it is more appropriate to treat them more like peers without disabilities (as much as possible).

I believe that they respond and even thrive better when being treated with the same respect and consideration as peers (as much as possible).

Short term disorders. Everybody copes differently. Restoring to a healthy state - it's a process and not an event.
 
I don't back off. The only time I will stop responding is if I realize I'm just wasting my time. If someone is so screwed up that they can't handle rational debate, they probably shouldn't be here in the first place.
 
Some people you can stir their pot with logic and I can just tell they are punching thier keyboard or kicking thier cat LMAO

That is the truth.

I just report it to the mods and let it go. No use getting all hot and bothered over internet stuff.
 
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