I have friends in medicine concerned with brain, mostly neuroscientists and neurologists. Would you be surprised to learn that it is becoming more and more acknowledged among academia that psychiatry is a pseudoscience and metal illnesses as defined and diagnosed by psychiatrists are false concepts?
And?
That doesn't mean he isn't quite sick in his head.
And it doesn't mean he is sick in the head. Think you might have missed his point. Mentally sick is defined by whatever psychologists define it to be and has been through our history.
Perhaps Rpietila went through a hard time and that mentally taxed him, maybe even broke him - but that is what a sick society will do to people.
I try to remember this quote - Krishnamurti: “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
Look, we can play this game forever.
Fact is if this is real and he is not trolling then pretty much everyone, with the right background or not, would agree he is not mentally sane. Period.
It doesn't get much clearer than a case like this.
Unless you want to be all political correct like you. Which never helped anyone, anywhere.