Talk:The Myth of Mental Illness

message: *No. See my Discussion item below.CuriousMind01 (talk) 13:52, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: We could say, "alienated the alienists"! EEng 05:17, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: No, that would be stupid. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 05:22, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: But amusingly alliterative. EEng 05:53, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Peradventure even alleviative of my innate agelastasia. JonRichfield (talk) 08:11, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: For longer-lasting relief, try our time-release formulation . (Notr: not effective in all subjects.) EEng 08:49, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Please do not make comments that have no relation to improving the article. I welcome any actual suggestions on improving the article. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 08:31, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

text: My comment was an attempt to reassure someone you're berating that he/she hasn't done anything wrong, and to help you see that your dealings with every single person who has innocently come to this page, by invitation, to answer a reasonable question, have been wrongheaded and counterproductive. I don't know how to terminate an RfC, but I'm sure  does. EEng 04:47, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I did not berate Maproom. I requested that Maproom explain what he objected to in the current wording of the article, and how, in his view, the article should read. The request was reasonable, and it stands. Perhaps you should consider that Maproom can speak for himself and does not need you to speak for him? As for the RfC, it's hardly "reasonable" when it is as poorly worded and ambiguous as it is. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 05:11, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right, I apologize. I confused your response to Maproom with your berating of everyone else. Iridescent, please abort this RfC, since its outcome is clear as the driven SNOW. EEng 05:18, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The RfC is irrelevant and it hardly matters whether it is closed now. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 05:22, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:   asked me a civil question, and I answered it. I never felt berated. However, if there is now consensus that the RfC is irrelevant, can someone please close it? That will save other editors who may yet be sent here by the bot from considering and responding to the request. Maproom (talk) 08:09, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: No objection. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 08:22, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not appropriate that I close this, given the circumstances, as it just means anyone in future can scream "invalid close!" and reopen it at any time. If all five participants concur,, just slap  and  templates around it; otherwise, post a request at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Requests for closure, someone should be along shortly. ‑ Iridescent 17:00, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
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message: This article does not mention the main, simple, and brief point of the book which is why Dr. Szasz thought mental illness is myth.  The main point of the book is that true medicine is about physical diseases and that in order there for there to be a disease there has to be a physical abnormality causing the disease, and that there is no physical abnormality causing mental illness, therefore mental illness is a myth.  Also, the “Thomas Szasz” Wikipedia makes this point, and so this article should follow his Wiki because obviously this is his book.  Dr. Szasz said that mental illness was not classified as a medical disease until medicine wrongfully classified it as a disease just by declaration without out any proper medical basis of a physical abnormality.  Dr. Szasz is still correct all of these years later despite brain scans and promises of finding the physical abnormality causing mental illness, but none has been found and never will be.  As an aside there are some physical conditions that cause “mental illness” like starvation, dehydration, sensory deprivation, but that doesn’t change the point that so called mental illnesses are by and large mythical medical diseases.  Myth of Mental Illness BookArthursturges (talk) 20:34, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  I agree with you about the thrust of Szasz's thesis, however, I think the article makes the point.  If you think it can be improved I would encourage you to be bold and edit the article as you see fit. see WP:BRD Dlabtot (talk) 05:30, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article should mention the main reason and point of the book which is why Dr. Szasz declared mental illness is a myth, and also should follow his Wikipedia page.   

message: Game theory — for Szasz, mental illness is best understood through the lens of game theory — could we have a source, since I've been unable to find it? 37.252.89.42 (talk) 16:59, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Game theory reference