How to Deal With a Mental Illness?

Goffman's theory that there is no boundary between how you behave in public and how you behave in private is fairly diagnostic for mental illness. And i'm certainly american enough to be horrified at the extreme versions of all this. When viewed from loose cultures, the stakes are just non obvious. What's wrong with swearing, or saying something inappropriate, or not being polite, when you know you don't view yourself in those terms? But is it? To come back to culture, there are tighter cultures, and perhaps you can, you can pick any example you want to describe,. but everything from singapore to ancient sparta to the american south, by comparison with the rest of