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Poor Mental Health Isn’t An Excuse To Treat Others Badly
How often have we been hurt or confused by the closest people in our lives, only to be told by them that they’re not really responsible for their bad behavior? While mental health can be a cause of problematic actions, it’s never an acceptable excuse.
By Gwen Farrell4 min read
Mental health is an important yet often stigmatized and avoided topic. We hear a lot from mental health professionals and advocates on the importance of accepting and trying to understand our friends and loved ones with mental health issues (and even ourselves), but there’s strangely not a lot of material on how those issues can be manipulated to suit the selfish ends of individuals. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, but poor mental health isn’t an excuse to treat others badly.