I am mentally ill. I have post traumatic stress. I have been locked up in mental hospitals before. ..oK I am bat shit crazy.
That said I am not an ASSHOLE.I am mentally ill,I have a scarred brain from traumas. That does not mean I am an asshole . I never built a career being on like THESE assholes .
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI200504110Don't stigmatize me and the millions of mentally ill people in this world by lumping in us..with them..!
BIG differences between asshole bullies and mentally ill people.Remember Hitler killed off the disabled and mentally ill first to create his perfect society
http://www.chairgrrl.com/DisabilityTimeline/holocaust.htm..All you Shiavo/all right for the state to pull the plug,on disabled people, people..think on this similarity and realize the futility of life laws are killing people even on DU...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1017296When I see people on DU,and everywhere else using the mental illness label as a STIGMA tool to insult or label an asshole bad... I feel pissed off for being lumped in with these assholes and hurt because I know I'm NOT an asshole and I know alot of mentally ill or"crazy" people aren't assholes either....
This use of "nutjob,crazy,loon,ect.ect.ect.. being used as the insult du Jour directed to a BULLY,an authoritarian,a fascist dick head,or some such fanatic control freak..
Is really stigmatizing people who suffer in ways people without mental illness cannot ever comprehend. If you have compassion or know someone with depression,PSTD,Autistic,ADD,OCD a phobia,bi polar,eating disorders, schizophrenia or who has committed suicide, Mental illness is no funny joke. In reality mentally ill people suffer,and it is NOT because they are a bunch of bat shit crazy assholes.
But sometimes mentally ill people get fed up,it's because they were hurt by assholes too much and they keep being dehumanized by a society that repeats the insults by stigmatizing them.
You people who have never had mental illness need to understand how pervasive the stigmas against disabled people go in this culture.For some populations of scapegoated people stigmas and hate it is still brutally painful.
Mental illness HURTS the person who has it,it can drive you to kill yourself it hurts so much.. IT ruins your capacity to live life, it ruins everything..
Authoritarians are one type of asshole that helps CREATE mental illness in their victims and in society.
Most mentally ill people are NOT psycho killers,violent or dangers to society at all,they might not bathe enough,they might talk to themselves,or not be efficient workers,or hoard alot of beer cans ,but they are not a bunch of control freak assholes for kicks..in fact in this society they are scapegoated along with gays ,women,brown skinned people,pagans,and fat people ,often by some of the same "fortunate" authoritarian assholes.
And it is the authoritarian that creates the social conditions that normalize the scapegoating of different or suffering people.
SO Say what you really mean, Call an asshole bully what it is an asshole bully
But don't call an asshole bully mentally ill,
crazy,loon,nut job wacko, because that is not what an ASSHOLE bully is. An asshole bully is an asshole when an asshole bully is being an asshole bully to you or someone else or alot of people .OK? Be creative as you want in how you call an asshole an asshole but do not misfire your wrath into innocent people.Mentally ill people,fat people,gays,etc.are not collateral damage to be dismissed as fodder in a war of words ok?
Remember..Assholes don't suffer from their own cruelty,control freakishness stigmatization and hateful words. The victims do.
If it hurt the bully like it hurts the victim hearing such hateful words and vicious stigmas the bully would not do it anymore. If a bully was not an asshole ,their empathy would forbade such abusive verbiage ,and their consience would kick them for it if they took it out on the wrong target. So be aware Asshole bullies have no consience,no empathy and feel no shame when they tear someone innocent , vulnerable,different or in pain down..who didn't insult or hurt them for no reason.
The suffering caused by bully assholes through their cruelty can really cause mental illness in sensitive people. Magnify a bully's opinions with the media, or if they have "authority" or social recognition,a bully can generate social stigmas and cause scapegoating in bystanders and cause war and even some form of fascism if the bullies are not told to shut-up and leave(the victim) alone..
It's obedient behavior that is so easily being exploited and misused by a big mouth bully that gets so many people hurt .
In the Stanford prison experiments
Twenty-four young men were selected to participate from the many candidates subjected to diagnostic interviews and psychological tests designed to weed out abnormal people.
http://www.prisonexp.org/legnews.htm Wonder why abnormals were not included? Maybe it because mentally ill people are too hurt to trust authority and too scarred by trauma to take a bully for long,or too disorganized to be of any use in such a study of authoritarianism and obedience?
Or maybe because the intent of this experiment was to show how normal people are not immune as they'd like to believe they are from being victims,bystanders or perpetrators.And the stigma attached to mental illness would have been used to dismiss the study and it's profound implications about the authoritarianism of the military culture and the state.
Bullies cause and thrive on social discord,bad relations,and Psychiatric injury.And they are common in every population of human beings. They gravitate anywhere that TOLERATES or 'normalizes' their shit.
An Asshole is an Asshole.An ASSHOLE is the problem.
Don't BE an asshole when you get outraged by an asshole and go around and stigmatize the mentally ill yet again 'cause an asshole pissed you off.. WE can do better at being aware of what we say and who it hurts and keep it aimed at the real target that deserves our wrath right? Have some empathy and skillful means..
Watch who you point that sharp tongue at you might stab someones heart out with it if you flap it around without aiming it at your true intended target first..
Here's an analogy..It's like when you can't chew out an ASSHOLE boss being mean to you,so you stuff it,you come home and kick the family pet... who is Innocent and uninvolved with your situation,you just made your pet the victim to suffer the wrath the asshole deserved.. And because we humans speak and words have meanings they can pummel a mind like fists pummel flesh. Hence Psychiatric injury.
http://www.bullyonline.org/stress/index.htmThis is the stigmatizing to the mentally ill thread that got me pissed off.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2683767&mesg_id=2683901