Do you think it's possible to tell if someone has a mental disorder just by looking at them?

[msc545]

Do you think this is possible? What physical characteristics do you think correspond to any specific mental disorders? I have sometimes thought, although not completely seriously, that an excessive number of tattoos or piercings, or skimpy clothing, suggests the presence of an Impulse Disorder and Impaired Judgment. What do you think?

[Ill_made_Knight]

I think there are times when you feel with a fair degree of certainty that you're seeing someone who's slipped over the edge, but you really can't be certain I think.
There was this man in Oakland CA. downtown. Just the hygiene and state of his clothing suggested homelessness. Dirty.
He had a sandwich board though, it said "Unlawful Sex". He would parade back and forth shouting at the sky about people "not being authorized" to be married and that was his whole schtick essentially. You would think that this would be the case with that guy.

[stalk-stopper]

Mental? Probably easily. Emotional disorder? Definitrly not.

I exhibit all the stereotypical things... if i put my past under a microscope... my dad does too with his past... but at the same time we are mentally healthy and can tell you all about mental health science. We are emotionally destroyed by trauma. we are only triggered sometimes. Not at all times. Like i get a panic attack whenever i see children being spanked and i usually clenched my every muscle in the body to force myself not to jump in and intervene, but sometimes i have let loose of myself.

[Staximus]

If they look like they mutilated themselves intentionally maybe. I guess if someone was singing “somewhere over the rainbow” while looking at me like they wanted to eat my liver with some fava beans, I might be a bit concerned. That would be behavior and not just the way they look, though

[Kvass]

Yeah, of course you can't give a full diagnosis, but you can tell that something is wrong with them

[SeekerOfTruth007]

Eyes too close together seems to correlate to Down Syndrome.

[goaded]

Well, there's the hat...

But no, not really.

[888theGreat]

They walk funny

[confident666]

Difficult for most mental disorders...