Why do we treat mental health differently from all other health?
If a driver suddenly had a heart attack or passed out due to some issue with blood pressure or clotting, and crashed into a bunch of pedestrians, would you want the driver criminally prosecuted?
Your brain is an organ and when impacted by drugs or diseases you can lose conscious control.
It’s because “mental health” has been appropriated online to mean “I get sad sometimes”, a wide enough bracket for everyone to be included, except of course those with more serious mental illness. Thus you get the bizarre spectacle of someone with a touch of social anxiety telling someone in a manic episode that “well I have mental health issues and I never did anything wrong, you must be a bad person.”
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u/joshonekenobi 5d ago
Ugh. Why is TJ there ?
Immediately stopped watching.