Under Construction - MHWA Retreat

I really appreciate your point that there is no such thing as a normal person. Normal is such a relative term. What’s normal to me, isn’t normal to you, and vice versatile. We all define our own set of requirements for what is normal. As a graduate student in psychology that’s one of the first things that was drilled into us, not that I ever thought differently but it needed to be thoroughly understood. Even when defining a mental disorder, one of the criteria is that is has to be disruptive to the individual - it has to go against what is normal to that person. If I’m hearing voices all day and it’s totally normal to me, I believe it’s a religious calling or whatever, and I’m able to function in my chosen role in society despite it, then hey, I’m normal!