Like what Myers says in his psych book, “People are fascinated by the exceptional, the unusual, the abnormal” (Myers 2013). This statement that is presented in the book is really ultimately true. People study people, whether intentional or not. The more “different” one individual is from society, the more he or she stands out and is made an outcast from the rest of society. Those who possess disorders are different, though they cannot help it and they should not be isolated, but they are.
According to the book 450 million people in this world suffer from mental or behavioral disorders, which that account for roughly 6.5% of the population (Meyers 2013). This strikes me as odd. 6.5 is not that small of a percent, so why is it that the 93.5% of the remainder of the people of the world get to judge the remainder of the worldly citizens. Since there are three aspects that help to lead to a psychological disorder: biological, psychological, and social-cultural, it is hard to believe that we are not bringing these disorders upon ourselves.Even after we as humans categorize “flawed” other individuals into the “broken” column, we then again split them from there into categories that best align those who are similar. Anxiety, mood, schizophrenia, and a numerous other categories are the labels that we corral them into.Anxiety is broken up into five groups in the book: Generalized Anxiety, Panic Disorder, Phobias, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Myers 2013). Anxiety disorders seem to have a common social trend or a more focused inner self. These disorders to me resemble how we view the world. Each of the disorders listed above tend to be a mental loop or err in the human code. It is not that these in…
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…oming from the 6.5%, it is amazing to how the normal act with the abnormal. It is almost like the normal think the abnormal are contagious, they see them as sick and they want to try and heal them so the sickness cannot spread and the ill individual can be like the remainder of society. This world is flawed and filled with human err, and until we look ourselves in the mirror to point out/ fix our own cracks in our lives, then we should not be so quick to pass the judgment upon others. In Myers textbook he found a quote from T. H. Huxley’s Evolution and Ethics that I truly feel is better than any other words I could try and come up with to explain how the world is. “One of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do to an unmuzzled dog, not under proper control” (Myers 2013).
