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Message: [QUOTE="kirbivore, post: 4963659, member: 952"] [I]From Drew Magary at Defector[/I] [HEADING=2]Beware Of A#$%^&*(@ Trying To Co-Opt Mental Health Awareness[/HEADING] [I]Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? [/I][EMAIL='funbag@defector.com'][I]Email the Funbag[/I][/EMAIL][I]. And [/I][URL='https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/663641/the-night-the-lights-went-out-by-drew-magary/'][I]buy Drew’s book, [/I]The Night The Lights Went Out[I],[/I][/URL][I] while you’re at it. Today, we're talking about the two-minute warning, T-Larry, rocks, Lou, washing machines, onerous fruits, and more.[/I] Your letters: Anon: You are not the . I’ll refer you to this passage from James Robins’s recent [URL='https://defector.com/not-even-the-patron-stooge-of-fawning-biographies-can-make-elon-musk-look-good']review[/URL] of Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk: Same deal here. Just because you suffer from a mental illness doesn’t mean that everything you do is the fault [I]of[/I] that illness, nor does that illness always absolve you of the worst things you do. In the case of—for example—certain retired NFL players who are suffering from severe brain damage, the line there can be indistinct. In the case of Musk, and your co-worker, it’s not. You can be mentally ill and still be a complete . I know because I’ve used my own brain damage as a crutch to excuse my own poor behavior. I didn’t threaten people or anything that severe, but I definitely lashed out and was a general dick, even to those I love. Blaming all of it on my mental health issues was a cheap way of excusing myself and to avoid proper treatment. I didn’t deserve a Get Out Of Jail Free card for any of that, and many other heads do not. I don’t think that’s a controversial thing to say, even in the age of mental health awareness. The goal behind the current movement is to get everyone to recognize mental health problems both in others and in themselves. That recognition requires nuance. It involves familiarizing yourself with a loose range of mental health issues, where they originate from, and how to potentially treat them. It doesn’t mean making “mental health issues” a blanket term for an impossibly wide range of conditions, because that allows for shitbags to game the system. It’s incumbent on the rest of us to intuit when such people are leaning on that crutch far too hard, and [URL='https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/inside-ezra-millers-dark-spiral-messiah-delusions']for their own ends[/URL]. Musk is a perfect example of this, as is a work colleague who makes [I]direct[/I] threats to his colleagues and should be disciplined for it. (I also wouldn't hesitate to notify law enforcement in this instance.) It’s no sin to call those people out on their . It’s [I]necessary[/I], in fact. that guy, is what I’m saying. [/QUOTE]

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