It's not as if we're deaf or can't understand what's being said to us or about us, yet that's how we're talked to and about most of the time. It's ironic how often people who have psychiatric diagnoses have to understand everyone around them, rather than the other way around. If you had ever been a patient in a mental hospital, particularly a regular mental hospital rather than one for privileged and powerful people, you might know what I'm talking about.
I don't know if you know this, either; most people don't:
That's a picture of the first result for a Google search from today of the term "mentally ill more likely to be victims of violence."
Although decreasing the stigma of mental illness and eliminating prejudice and discrimination around mental health issues are important goals, this is not what I would have chosen to call this organization:
Also, don't think that I'll ever date you, because I never will:
Before every other rule about whom I date and how I want to be treated, I don't date royalty. I have said that before.
Copyright, with exceptions that I don't want to continue to discuss, L. Kochman, October 23, 2016 @ 11:56 p.m./additions October 24, 2016 @ 12:23 a.m.
