I think it’s bad and it would be much better if mental illness was more widely understood rather than stigmatized so people with relatively harmless conditions wouldn’t also have the pain of being ostracized and isolated because of it.
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I think the problem is that we as a society have a difficult time recognizing that “X condition makes people more likely to do Y” and “human beings still have free will and should be accountable for their actions” are not irreconcilable.
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The ongoing conflation of profound mental illness with difficult to treat but not insurmountable mental illness, with depression, with just sorta being anxious, is making this discussion almost impossible. The 10,000 forms of “autism” are just the most blatant example.
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It's a tricky one, cos I'd say that destigmatising has been a good thing, but it's sea-sawed too far now; too many openly flaunt it. Being so open about it creates another different crutch instead; no reason to "get better", almost. Cc
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hhuuuuh yeah
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good on net, bad at the margin
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do people have any sense of how crazy we are
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mental health stigma is on net a complicated thing for society
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can't think of many bads of mental health stuff that stigma doesn't make worse
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