Talk:Trumpart/@comment-26017717-20161218153905/@comment-26017717-20161219102132

Party, I never said mental illness was something made up, I only meant to put a different perspective on it.

As it happens, I do know someone with schizophrenia, and I would never call him insane because that would be to diminish him as a person, as well as an assholish way to distance myself from him. I think of him as a person who suffers from an illness that impedes his functions, much the same way I would think about someone with a broken neck as being impeded by his injury. Both are terrible things to suffer from and both can cause personality changes as a result, but that's not a good enough reason for me to label them as insane. Doing that would mean I defined them by their illness.

I have the utmost respect for the effort people with mental illnesses put in to live their daily lives, and I'm sorry if I made it seem otherwhise. It's just kinda hard to properly define abstract things like this in a discussion.

You and your friend have my sympathies, I wish there was something I could do to help.