Reply #165: You were maligned in this sub-thread and the criticism aimed at you...

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...appears to be based upon misinformation about mental illness. Nothing you said was offensive in the least, IMO.

Ironically, some of the comments here that chastise you, in a purported effort to defend people with mental illness, actually come across as condescending and demeaning toward them in a broad brush sort of way that tends to stigmatize.

Your post did not deserve the hostility it encountered.