johnnyyukon
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Is Lohan officially mentally ill? Tragic story, sure, but we're talking about mental illness in this situation... although getting back to topic (EQ), how would our EQ as a culture (for instance) contribute to how we view expressions of mental illness? Isn't there some importance in treating people in a consistent fashion, rather than vilifying one mentally ill person but venerating another? Or is there some other reason for the inequities? EQ might be more important in that it could reflect some things back to us as a culture, for the purposes of positive change.
Well ok, EQ. Wouldn't a person with a higher EQ see Lohan popping adderall like pez candy, and frequently getting arrested as a possible sign of mental illness? (I too have not looked into it).
I think IF you can get that person in treatment, homicidal tendencies or self-destructive tendencies, they are treated the same. A psychiatrist/psychologist with a very high EQ, I would think would have compassion for both, although it seems certainly understandable to favor the one that doesn't think about harming others. Doesn't mean you have to give them less treatment.
John Hinckley, Jr. for example, that hopeless romantic, according to his psychiatrists, "Hinckley has recovered to the point that he poses no imminent risk of danger to himself or others."