Mental vs normal Is there a double standard?

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> Sorry if I offended anyone. I justed the title as short as possible.
> Okay If you're mental you're wishy washy. If your normal flexible.
> If you're mental you're rigid. If you're normal you stick to your guns.
> If you're normal in touch with your feelings. Mental, overemotional
> If you're normal you're delirious with joy. If you're mental ,manic.
> If you're normal you're sad. If you're mental, depressed.
> If you're normal your keenly interested in something. Mental OCD.
> In other words there seems, at least to me, a double standard when it
> comes to the same activity for mental vs normal.
> Please lets not get into what's normal. I define normal as what
> socieity in general thinks of as normal. Not the best definition but
> the one I think is most pragmatic , relevant for my message here.
> Yes I realize there are symptoms of mental illness. However I think
> there a quite different views of the same behavior in both groups.
> Well what's your opinion?
> Lynda Appell