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We are told that mental illness isn’t violent and that to suggest otherwise is to stigmatize those who suffer. I can’t imagine more offensive bullshit than this, especially since it often comes from the competent ill who have the luxury of framing the world’s perception of illness.

Mental illness is nothing but violence. It perpetrates violence against your own mind. It hacks and burns and dismembers. It commits violence against others through neglect, burned bridges, and hurtful words. Sometimes, the violence turns physical. Often against oneself. Rarely, tragically towards others. To suggest, as many deluded denizens of the internet do, that violence is never the natural outgrowth of mental illness is blinkered in the extreme.