I dare say 90 percent of my close friends are medicated for mental health issues, in therapy, or neurodivergent in ways that affect their daily lives.
Not a one of them admires Hitler.
Please don't use mental health as a reason to excuse antisemitism.
Yep. I'm bipolar 2 and have never praised ANY dictators – much less a mass-murdering fuckhead like Hitler. (h/t Eddie Izzard.) Neither have my bipolar 1 family members.
[Similarly for the I'm-not-racist-I-was-drunk cockwombles: I've been drunk LOTS of times but the n-word has never tumbled out.]
HOWEVER. I do think it's possible that being in a manic episode (a delightful feature of bipolar 1) might make him more susceptible to absorbing info ...
that he might reject as outlandish, if he were in a stable state. Also, he's a narcissist to begin with – prone to grandiosity – and that's a shared issue with and would presumably be exacerbated by mania.
So he not only thinks he knows everything, and understands issues and the DEEP interconnections better than we unenlightened folks, he's gonna insistently tell anyone who'll listen ALLLLL about it. He can't not.
Does that make sense?
@rmartinwriting sure it does. Mental health DOES affect how we absorb and disseminate information. It doesn't make him any less culpable for what he does with it.
And as a multimillionaire many times over, not properly managing his health is, at this point, a choice he is making.
A bit, but I don't know what the guidelines are for that.
Yes indeed, still culpable. And he'll be settling these bills for years.
That's one more reason ya have to do whatever you can to set up support when you are doing better. (But it's sometimes hard to think you need it, when you're doing well. Vicious circle, that.)
Like letting your closest friends and fam know what signs to watch for and what to specifically do. Like having appointments set out in advance and having prescriptions already filled, that you may not need _now_.
@voice_of_reason As I know from personal experience though, sometimes the biggest trick is getting initial help – even admitting you might have an issue.
I fought a diagnosis of depression, and best believe I fought like hell against a possible bipolar disorder diagnosis. For _years_.
There's still so much stigma regarding mental issue illness – re others and also internally. It feels like weakness. ...
@voice_of_reason THANK YOU ❤️
I've been yelling this since yesterday, yet keep seeing blame assigned to mental illness. It's frustrating and painful to see.
One has to ask; how did we get back to this point?
Has this nation's moral compass lost its direction?
How far off the cliff did Trump take everything once considered despotic, but too many is now normal?
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