mental illness threads in general:
1) If you don't suffer from mental illness, you don't understand it, and frankly, you can't understand it.
2) Just because some mentally ill people can learn to control it or even "recover" does not mean that all of them can.
2) If you do suffer from mental illness, you cannot assume that others with the same diagnosis as you experience it in the same way that you do.
4) Mental illnesses are infinitely complex; stop trying to reduce them to yes-or-no questions.
And don't be surprised if people come after you if you make a comment that implies you know the "truth" about any given condition related to a mental illness.
clipped from: www.metafilter.com