"mental health is not an excuse for shtty behaviour!"

How is it that "mental health is not an excuse for shtty behaviour!" is a popular opinion... until someone with mh problems is a shtty person?? Or displays shtty behaviour? Mh is a reason, but not an excuse. 

FUN FACT:

You can have mh problems AND be a bad person at the same time!

Lets talk about it!!

Having mh problems does not MAKE you a bad person; however, it also doesnt make you an INNOCENT person either!! As someone with pretty bad mh problems, I admit that I've done some REALLY crappy things... but I've listened to my friends and families criticisms and tried to improve as much as I can. It's all about IMPROVEMENT. 

You can not manipulate people, abuse people, threaten people, etc. and then say "oh but i have -insert disorder/mh problem-". This goes for other people who defend these people too! "oh but they have a bad home life!" "but they have x,y,z- they didn't understand what they were doing" Then tell them?? Tell them and help them improve, don't say they didn't understand and then leave it at that. 

Doing this -completely disregarding that it needs to stop and excusing it- will not help anyone!! it will not help the person who's struggling, nor the people that THEY have hurt.

That being said:

1. Take accountability and improve on your behaviour if someone tells you it has harmed people. 

2. If someone is manipulative/abusive/just generally a crappy person to you.. call it out, tell someone, cut that person off if needed. 

3. If someone tells you that someone is a shitty person -but also happens to have bad mh- keep it in mind, but don't disregard whoever came to you for help.