[@Shoryu Magami] It is also my opinion that we are grossly over diagnosing certain 'illnesses' so I believe you are right that we will be hard pressed to find anyone [i]not[/i] mentally ill. But I was referring more to those that clearly suffer some 'not-normal' illness. Everyone gets anxious from time to time - but as you understand as well as I do, there is a very large area between 'being nervous sometimes' and 'literally crying and vomiting because you have to present something' or something like that. 

I'm interested in your opinions on how mental illness affects this site, what I meant about personal stories were more along the lines of 'I have depression, please feel bad for me people.' as a means of an argument to support some other notion. Having a mental illness does not make you an expert on that illness/mental illness in general, which was the argument I was trying to avoid.