Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-5825217-20131020030042/@comment-5825217-20131118105929

Danatblair wrote: The only area I'd disagree with is splitting mental illness into smaller categories. Mental illness can be temporary or permanent, so just because soemthing is fleeting would not prevent it from qualifying. Also, pastas already have a fairly hollywood understanding of mental illness. It's all serial killers, descents into madness, and unreliable narrators anyway.

While I would love for more accuracy and less sensatoinalism in regards to Mentall Illness and its' portrayls in the media, I don't think seperating it out into a billion different type of mental illness will do anything but create more abused and misapplied mental illness categories as the lay person can't generally tell the difference or knows what a particular disease actually is. While I get where you're coming from, the argument against this is:

1) Mental Illness is already misapplied as a sort of blanket category for anything remotely involving the mind. Splitting it up might help remedy that, because hallucinations brought on by entities or drugs are not mental illness (unless the entity itself is the product of a delusion, in which case it would go under Delusions AND Hallucinations).

2) Not all mental illnesses are serial killers, descents into madness, and unreliable narrators. I know people with mental illnesses, does that make them psychopathic murderers?

But I digress. Mental illness pastas may not always encompass serial killers and the like. Perhaps they're about someone who works at an asylum or has a mild mental illness that contributes to elements of the story.

Anyway, this thread is tentative, so if something sounds good in theory but doesn't work out when put into practise, it can always be retracted and modified. At least on the wiki.