“Don’t have kids if you suffer from mental illness”

The exact quote said -

“it is well documented that there is a genetic precursor for many mental disorders. You don’t want your kids to have the same problems you have, do you? Make sure you adopt, rather than making kids yourself. Predisposing children to mental disorders is just cruel.”

Stigma of mental illness.

And that didn’t come from me. The writer, a college student from Canterbury University, new Zealand, was reacting to a television PSA educating the public on the stigma of mental illnesses. Deborah was probably trying to be smart, and wrote that putting mental health on the front page would increase the stigma that people have. According to her, people who reveal they have mental illness are really asking to be treated differently! And that they’re “annoying behavior is not acceptable”!

And, if someone does have mental illness, the world will be better off if they don’t pass the genes on!

WOW. To say that she is disrespectful is putting it very mildly.

h/t Stuff;

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