One thing that always strikes me as relevant when we're dealing with stuff like pandemics where people are out holding massive parties etc.
It's not that most people are stupid.
It's that they're utterly insane.
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Most of what gets labelled as mental illness is small potatoes compared with people's regular everyday priorites.
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As someone with decades long severe mental illness, I heavily disagree. But if you're talking what people 'think' mental illness is, vs the actual reality of living with it, then that's different
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I'm talking about there being a lot of disturbed beliefs that don't fit into the disease model because they aren't understood to cause suffering to the person holding them.
Many of these disturbances are dangerously common.
It's not to say mental illness isn't debilitating.
From a psychiatric viewpoint? Perhaps. But treating mental illness isn't done from only one method - Logotherapy for instance considers non psychopathological diagnosis and considers neuroses in noetic dimensions, which can often contain subliminal distressors
But just having dangerous or 'disturbing' beliefs (say, racist ones) don't fit in that model, no, but then there's the question if we pathologize ideology and belief, or treat it sociologically or anthropologically
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