Dreamsglore wrote:
And I think your a hypocrite that attacks certain people and makes excuses for others w/ worse behavior. I bet you're real effective in your mental health role. You started the thread to try and beat up on me-not because you were such a glorious mental health advocate. You try to make irresponsible behavior justifiable under the guise of mental health. Having mental health issues is not a good thing either as anyone will tell you but it is the behavior not the condition I find disgusting.You can bask in your self promoting badge of honor but to advocate dissing that behavior as beating up or shaming someone is going too far. It'[s irresponsible on your part.
Time for some more education, I say, as I don my blue silk cape complete with the self-promoting badge of honor....whoooosh.....there, I'm more comfortable now. Glorious? Probably not. But effective? Oh, yes.
By the way, as some long-time posters can probably confirm, this is not my first online rodeo during my years as a NAMI StigmaBuster. I must say it's been one of the most entertaining rodeos. I seldom get the opportunity to ride that bull, so when you opened the door, I jumped up on that critter. I have to take what I can get, you see.
Here we go....
Dreams. I think you need to pull out your DSM4 and refresh your knowledge base a bit. First, there are mental illnesses. Then, there are personality (character) disorders. Although the two overlap sometimes, they most often don't. Read about it.
You did not stick to behavioral issues in your day-to-day criticisms of another poster. You labeled, you laughed. In short, you found another person's pain amusing, and thought it even funnier to label that person "bipolar." It is your behavior I can't abide, Dreams.
What I support is speaking up to those who would paint people who have a mental illness as somehow less-than. What I object to is the stigma these people live with every day.....the fear that others will find out about their illness.....the fear that they will be judged not on their merits but on the fact of their illness.
You gave me an opening. I took it and ran.