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Originally Posted by CalgaryFan1988
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IF it ends up being Hoffman's gf behind all of the harassment, is it not possible that she is chemically unbalanced? There are a lot of mentally unhealthy people out there. Wish everyone wouldn't be so quick to judge. A lot of facts will come out in the upcoming weeks/months.
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Or it could just be that she's a nasty ass person, if we lead with the premise that it is indeed Caryk pulling this nonsense (I'm not casting a judgement yet, cuz I think there's still more to come out about this and it very well could be mistaken identity /PC answer). Not all nasty ass people are mentally unhealthy, at least not in the way you seem to be implying. I'm not sure I can explain this properly but anyway...here, a link and an excerpt from that link, that I read a while back, regarding Trump, but still, stands to reason for any situation really.
We can’t keep conflating bad behaviour or reprehensible views with mental illness.
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We can’t keep conflating bad behaviour or reprehensible views with mental illness.
Every time we willingly blur the line between raging arsehole and mentally ill person, we do two very dangerous things: we increase stigma surrounding real psychiatric conditions, and we excuse people for their terrible behaviour on the basis that they had to have been “out of their minds” to think or act that way.
We make this mistake all the time. A mass murderer or a sadistic attacker is often described as “mentally unstable”, without any evidence at hand. Terrorist sympathisers, rapists, child abusers are routinely slapped with the label. “Probably schizophrenic” is a common layman’s diagnosis you’ll hear following one horrific tragedy or another, followed closely behind by “what looked like a bipolar episode”. And these terms creep into daily conversation as well: violent spouses “must have had something mentally wrong with them”; bullying bosses and Twitter trolls are dismissed as “clearly having psychological problems”.
When the only time we talk about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or depression is when someone massacres their family or launches a vicious verbal attack on a stranger, then it’s very easy to see how stigma builds around psychiatric conditions which many reasonable, sensible, compassionate people live with their entire lives. It’s easy to see how we then read “I have depression” as “I could go off the rails any minute”, or “I’ve been diagnosed with bipolar disorder” with “I’m an obnoxious person who you don’t want to work in your office. Hire me at your peril.”
It’s also easy to see how we then stop holding people account for abuse, for cruelty, for prejudice and xenophobia. Rightly, we have courts of law which allow pleas of diminished responsibility when someone is gravely mentally ill and commits a crime. Twitter isn’t a court of law, and Donald Trump’s remarks about Muslims or actions surrounding his Mexican wall shouldn’t get to be waved away with a laugh and a shrug because he’s “mental”. They should be taken as seriously as the actions of anyone else who popular opinion has decided is sound of mind.
Put simply: sometimes, an arsehole is just an arsehole. In pop psychiatry, it’s especially important to remember that.
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