sharing my fb post from this am- it is time to move past the idea of "mental illness"

[Tobin S.]

3. I don't think it's all physiological, either.

Some of it is, some of it isn't. Until human beings learn to treat each other with compassion and respect we will always have problems like this on a larger and larger scale. It will continue to get worse.

My brain doesn't appear to be any different physiologically than a healthy person's, but I was nearly crippled with bipolar disorder. There's much more to the story than just brain tumors and chemical imbalances. Those things matter, but your upbringing and life experiences do as well. And, of course, there is the spiritual realm that nobody in the western world wants to talk about now days because we think we've got the universe all figured out.