@protestantwind this caused us to get to a place where we talk about how it’s super important to accept mental illness, but also that mental illnesses all have uniform symptoms and none of them result in antisocial behavior. that comes from being a bad person

@ByYourLogic @protestantwind This mentally ill person who I’m highly invested in canceling online said something problematic during a psychotic episode. I’ve got my own demons to battle (camera pans over to half empty bottle of Lexapro), but I’d NEVER do something like that

@ghost_tropic_ @protestantwind yes exactly. “mental health awareness” always meant a very narrow type of depression/anxiety/ADHD. there’s also been this broad gesture towards therapy, which I find incredibly irresponsible. if you talk about therapy like it always “makes you better” (read: better person)—

@ghost_tropic_ @protestantwind people will spend hundreds of dollars a month they don’t have and think they’re moral failures if nothing changes. some therapists work amazingly well for some, and don’t for others. very few people have the time and money to shop around. the way we talk about all this is awful

@ghost_tropic_ @protestantwind the institutional infrastructure for that stuff is so rotted out unless you’re very very rich. it just sickens me to see celebrities with unfathomable resources telling regular Americans how they “owe it to themselves!” we’d need to nationalize so many things to get anywhere

@ghost_tropic_ @ByYourLogic @protestantwind They used to have places like this when I was young - I got stuck in a couple of them - but the whole string of presidents from Reagan to Clinton dismantled that system.