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What is it about the denial of mental illness/mental disorders/neurological disorders that seems to be so appealing to some people? Is there a different appeal to denying each group? (For instance, the first group might contain schizophrenia, and ADHD would be in the second group kind of shading...

I don't know what to say. Will this and/or should this affect the amount of ritalin prescriptions given to kids? Are we really giving 5-6 million children a drug that stunts their growth and doesn't have the intended effect? Seriously...