One thing that really surprised me from Monday's class was how many people have mental health disorders.  We think of mental disorders as rare things.  We think there are only a few "crazy" people in the world, but mental disease exists everywhere.  In another one of my posts, I talk about how I participated in an activist movement called Spread the Word to End the Word, which tried to stop people from using "retarded" in such a casual way.  And what we learned in Liz's class showed that we really do need to be careful about these things.  I do it, too.  When I go back to my apartment to make sure my door is locked, I always joke about how I'm "so OCD," and I really do need to stop saying that because a lot of people suffer from the actual disease in today's society.  Overall, I really liked everything in the lecture on Monday, but the statistics on the amount of mental disease in the population surprised me the most.