(December 29, 2015 at 5:00 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: I can only imagine something similar when people learn of your mental illnesses. Probably lots of tentative responses, them acting like they're walking on eggshells, that sort of really annoying shit.
When my roommate at my short-lived college experience saw my bottle of Prozac, he asked me if I was going to do something to him in his sleep. He wasn't joking. People tend to equate mental illness with aggressive behavior. I think they fear that we'll "snap" on them more than anything.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
