Reply #37: Do you consider mental illness as comparable to physical illness? [View All]

[Ravenseye]

If a house was burning down and a person lay outside paralyzed from the neck down, just sitting there watching as their child burned alive inside the house, would you blame them for the child's death?

If in the same situation the person outside was not paralyzed physically, but had a mental illness which caused a temporary insanity to do nothing but watch their child die, would you hold them more complicit?

Mental illness is just that. It's a sickness. A quadriplegic is no more personally responsible than someone who suffers from some sort of psychosis.

Until more is known about this story, to just say that she either needs to be put down like an animal, or locked up forever, is stunning. If it was a result of postpartum psychosis, or some form of schitzophrenia she needs help and treatment, not to be put down like a dog.