Right, no one enjoys watching the Daily Show and Samantha Bee and John Oliver talk smack about Trump. The audience of all those shows are forcing themselves to endure the suffering.
Yes, professional psychiatrists have to follow ethical standards. But it shouldn’t be hard for average schmucks to see that making fun of mental illness rarely convinces anyone to seek help. It obviously increases the stigma of mental illness, which convinces other people to avoid admitting they have a problem and avoid seeking help. It’s like a nuke that does zero damage to a military target, but does miles and miles of collateral damage to civilians. There are plenty of good people who wouldn’t vote for a racist asshole like Donald Trump, but who have depression or OCD or whatever. They know that if they are open about their mental illness, they’ll be treated like crap. They know they’ll get evicted by discriminating landlords, fired by discriminating employers. Why risk your landlord seeing you go into a psychiatrist’s office, when you can stay home and cross your fingers that it will go away and you won’t kill yourself?
But yeah, just as long as non-professionals feel free to talk smack about mental illness, that’s the important thing.
