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salycionial's avatar

I wonder whether people are pointing to mental illness as a way to justify to ourselves why we won't take extreme action. It's hard to look at self-immolation and not wonder what it says about the rest of us.

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SquizzRadical's avatar

This is something I've been wondering. Maybe it's something like, "Only a person with a mental illness would do something like that!" I think this means that it's not within their actual logical mind or imagination to actually do something like this themselves. If I had announced that I was going to do this to my mother, she would say, "Oh, get over yourself."

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