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> Treating someone with mental illness effectively requires compassion. If being put on a psychiatric hold is a unnecessarily traumatic experience, you prevent
by slibhb 4y ago
> Treating someone with mental illness effectively requires compassion. If being put on a psychiatric hold is a unnecessarily traumatic experience, you prevent some short term harm while causing long term damage. Not only do you add additional trauma that complicates recovery but you teach those in need of help to hide their suffering as long as possible.
This is where you demanded perfection.
Empathy and compassion are not the only values and the result of treating them as such is negative.
- shkkmo 4y ago> This is where you demanded perfection. There is no call for perfection there. Stop pretending nuance doesn't exist. A system that helps 75% and harms 25% is better than a system that helps 25% and harms 75%. Improving the system so that compassion and empathy are a larger part of the process helps bring us closer to the former than the later for the reasons I explained. You ignored those reasons, and instead tried to attack a strawman... again. If you want to convey your arguments effectively, you need to try to understand what the person you are arguing with is saying rather than insisting they are saying what you want to argue against. > Empathy and compassion are not the only values and the result of treating them as such is negative. Another strawman. Nobody ever said they were the only values, just that they are important ones, especially when trying to treat mental illness.