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A Few Cards Short of a Deck

“We’re all mentally ill…” Stephen King said it, and I agree.
If any one person sat down with a list and descriptions of basic mental diseases, I am sure the person would find evidence that they were crazy. Maybe the person would think of the way most they felt on their first day of Junior High School; imagining every situation that could possibly go wrong and cause them to be humiliated in from of the entire student body. The person might have begged their parents to keep them home just to avoid the potential embarrassment. This is called Social Phobia, and is recognized as a mental illness.
Take for example, one definition of Borderline Personality Disorder obtained from the website, www. Mentalhealth.com. The symptoms are: 1) frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonm...

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