Failure to Function Adequately AO3

• Failure to Function Adequately

  +Represents a threshold for when to get help. Most of us have symptoms of mental disorder to some degree at some time. According to Mind, 25% of people in the UK will experience a mental health problem in any given year. It tends to be at the point that we cease to function adequately that people seek professional help or are noticed or referred for help by others. This criterion means that treatment and services can be targeted to those who need them most.
• Failure to Function Adequately

  -liable to discrimination and social control; easy to label non - standard lifestyle choices as abnormal. Not having a job or permanent address might seem like failing to function; but people with alternate lifestyle choices may decide to live off the grid. Those who favour high risk leisure activities or unusual spiritual practices could be unreasonably classed as irrational and possibly a danger to oneself. This means that people who make unusual choices are at risk of being labelled abnormal and their freedom of choice may be restricted.