Mental Illness Scale

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What is your take on a mental illness scale? I have made on in great detail and while mental illnesses can vary there are some that are often worse than others such as Schizophrenia vs. being only ADHD (though it's still problematic). What are your thoughts and if you want to know more about my scale you can message me.

What mental illness scale are you referring to?

Do you have a link to it?

I don't know what to say about it if I don't see what it is.

I think it would be better if you post it, as pm on here has caused me some grief in the past.

In my opinion, the metric that matters most is the enumeration of necessities that a mentally ill person cannot have due to their illness.

If someone's illness makes them homeless, that's important.

If someone's illness makes it impossible to hold down a job, that's important.

If someone's illness keeps them from tending to their health and hygiene, that's important.

If someone's illness prevents them from eating or sleeping, that's important.

If someone's illness prevents them from forming viable relationships with other humans, that's important.

... etc.

These kinds of dysfunctions, taken together, make dealing with all of them harder, too. They do not compartmentalize well.

This makes the size of the set of those dysfunctions the key metric in assessing the severity of mental illness.

This is replacing the GAF .

Understanding and communicating 16
Getting around 8
Self care 6
Getting along with people 18
Life activities 16
Participation in society 22

Total = 86

thanks for the info

I find that interesting don't know where I fall on scale always have some problems.

figuring due tto experiantial past situations, my mental health assesment must be astronomical.
oddly enough you have to believe in their assessment of mental illness , prolly would be considered high am not apt to adhere to conventions written by others . Being whom i am , i am more likely to
deal what is in front of me , given abilities to prognosticate future outcomes has been a oddly quite helpful ability to coordinate these so called symptoms of MH . if you refer to autism as a MH issue.
just saying ..