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>That's not mental illness, that's behavior that we should not be welcoming in any community. No, acceptance of mental illness doesn't work if you define away
by tux3 1y ago
>That's not mental illness, that's behavior that we should not be welcoming in any community.
No, acceptance of mental illness doesn't work if you define away anything serious as not mental illness. That's precisely the trouble the author is having, when they have a mental illness that's not just the cute idealized Tiktok version.
People with well-managed schizophrenia can lead relatively normal lives. Or they can wake up from a three day psychosis, not remembering why they've been arrested. It's a spectrum, and it does sometimes get ugly.
- dpoloncsak 1y agoI'm sorry, I have to disagree. Why should the python community still support someone who misappropriated funds? Others trusted him, and he proved he cannot be trusted. It's that simple, as far as I'm concerned. He knew about his mental illness, and still put himself in the position of control there. All could have been avoided
- tux3 1y agoThey shouldn't. Just like you don't have to support when a psychotic person becomes violent. But you also can't pretend it's not part of the package. It doesn't stop being mental illness when it becomes inconvenient. You will sometimes see people write "mental illness doesn't cause people to do this, because I have it and I don't". The truth is that most mental illnesses are on a spectrum. That includes both people who have no problem in daily life, and people who have serious problems. It's not mental illness because we don't want to support it is not the right conclusion. It's completely backwards.