So much this.
And people trotting out mental illness to explain shit like this just perpetuates the stereotype that people with mental illness can’t think for themselves or are dangerously unpredictable. Which then gets used as justification for locking us away, marginalizing us, torturing us, murdering us, etc.
No, I am not exaggerating. And you know what? A lot of those perpetrating those atrocities claimed to be doing so out of compassion, just like the people who leap to blame MI for everything under the sun.
