Brains and bile

My doctor thinks the aspiration problem is being caused by scleroderma. I had a scan over a year ago that didn't show any scleroderma involvement, but he told me that they don't see it until it is very advanced. That just pisses me off.

I've been thinking about the link between situational depression and chemical depression. If you are depressed long enough, it becomes a chemical depression. Does that then mean that our free will changes our brain chemistry? I don't think that's it. I think it's more likely that emotion is so deeply tied to chemistry that the two work together to either help us or hurt us. Again pointing to the lack of any true duality between the mind and the body. It would be nice if we could assign free will to mental illness, but it's never going to work that way.

I've seen people claim that mental illness is a choice. As I mentioned previously, I've been thinking about this link between the mind and the body a great deal lately. Specifically, the way mental illness is perceived in our society. I don't understand why it is still considered something separate from what we would call physical illness. How is having schizophrenia different from having diabetes? Yes, one can be fatal, but they originate from the same biological process. I think it's time we stop calling it mental illness at all.

Definition of mental

Definition of physical

If a mental disorder or disease is of the body, can be seen on a scan or found in the chemical processes of the body, how is it of the mind?