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I was hoping you guys could help me out. I need to have a few people answer these 10 questions for me on mental illness. All ya gotta do is respond with yes or no to each

1. Bad Parenting is a Major Cause of mental illness
2. Playing to many violent video games can cause mental illness
3. Homosexuality is a mental illness
4. Sinful behavior is responsible for much mental illness
5. Mental Illness has a biological cause
6. Mental Illnesses are generally curable
7. Mentally ill are generally more violent than "normal" people
8. Environment plays a role in mental illness'
9. Mentally ill can not function in normal society
10. The mentally ill are a threat to everyone, even themselves

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not my answers:
yes to all but #3.

i'm curious, are we talking DSM-IV?
revised answers:
1000100100
treatable but probably not curable
that said, some of those questions are questionable themselves (define sinful behavior)

yeah DSM-IV

and I know some of them are questionable, I didn't write them so not much I can do :p

my reason for answering yes to the second is that my definition of "too" means that doing too much of anything can lead to anything. so playing too many violent video games will also cause the earth to explode, but you'd have to play a lot of them. i don't think anyone with a mental illness got the illness from playing a game though

What's the definition of a mental illness?

Any of various psychiatric conditions, usually characterized by impairment of an individual's normal cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning, and caused by physiological or psychosocial factors

1. Bad Parenting is a Major Cause of mental illness
No
2. Playing to many violent video games can cause mental illness
No
3. Homosexuality is a mental illness
Not enough information
4. Sinful behavior is responsible for much mental illness
No
5. Mental Illness has a biological cause
Yes it can be
6. Mental Illnesses are generally curable
No
7. Mentally ill are generally more violent than "normal" people
No
8. Environment plays a role in mental illness'
Yes
9. Mentally ill can not function in normal society
Sometimes
10. The mentally ill are a threat to everyone, even themselves
Sometimes

1. Bad Parenting is a Major Cause of mental illness
No
2. Playing to many violent video games can cause mental illness
No
3. Homosexuality is a mental illness
Not enough information
4. Sinful behavior is responsible for much mental illness
No
5. Mental Illness has a biological cause
Yes it can be
6. Mental Illnesses are generally curable
No
7. Mentally ill are generally more violent than "normal" people
No
8. Environment plays a role in mental illness'
Yes
9. Mentally ill can not function in normal society
Sometimes
10. The mentally ill are a threat to everyone, even themselves
Sometimes

1. Bad Parenting is a Major Cause of mental illness
No.

2. Playing to many violent video games can cause mental illness
No.

3. Homosexuality is a mental illness
No.

4. Sinful behavior is responsible for much mental illness
No.

5. Mental Illness has a biological cause
Yes, it can have (But doesn't need to be).

6. Mental Illnesses are generally curable
Usually not, but it is often treatable/containable so people can function normally.

7. Mentally ill are generally more violent than "normal" people
No.

8. Environment plays a role in mental illness'
Yes, it can have a role.

9. Mentally ill can not function in normal society
No, most mentally ill people can function normally.

10. The mentally ill are a threat to everyone, even themselves
No, most of them are not, some of them are.

I wanna say thinks guys. I really appreciate you all answering the questions for me.

1. Bad Parenting is a Major Cause of mental illness
y
2. Playing to many violent video games can cause mental illness
n
3. Homosexuality is a mental illness
n
4. Sinful behavior is responsible for much mental illness
n
5. Mental Illness has a biological cause
y
6. Mental Illnesses are generally curable
n
7. Mentally ill are generally more violent than "normal" people
n
8. Environment plays a role in mental illness'
y
9. Mentally ill can not function in normal society
n
10. The mentally ill are a threat to everyone, even themselves
n

^^ the same as my answers.