Quote:Doug Stanhope has a good comedy bit about we treat people with mental illness's.


Basically says that there are two types, there's the people with down syndrome or severe learning disabilitys who are looked after by everyone and made sure that they are safe and well, as they should be.


The second group is full of people with with severe mental disorders like psychosis,schizophrenia etc etc who would be labeled as "crazy". These people often spend most of their lives on the fringes of society or on the street. Just because their illness is more difficult to deal with than someone with down syndrome, autism or a severe learning disability.


He says it way funnier than this of course but shows the double standard we have with ill people.