Seems redundant, might I say even merciless to see someone experiencing pain… I mean, imagine, a war so terrible someone has been harmed and you cannot see the bruising yet –do you say to them, “Get up! You’re not hurt. This isn’t even that bad! You’re really bringing me down, I’m ashamed of you. How dare you slow me down???” No way, right? Perhaps, you would offer them a hand, then see a flower and walk away? Or would you stand beside them and watch to see what happens, saying nothing? I think you’d think you’d extend a hand out to them, feel compassion, realize there’s a being who needs acceptance and care? How is mental illness different?
An abusive father causes illness in his children. If those children aren’t tended to, either, they will raise children in abuse, as well until the abuse is treated. I’m being treated and healing, yet the abusers before me defend and abuse. No one talks to fellow adults like, “How dare you…” and need I say, “If you can’t say something nice, you’re not allowed to talk,” because mature humans recognize and acknowledge when there’s wrong that’s been done, regardless of if it was their neighbor, doctor, or their self; whereas immature minds will defend and hurl abuse on and on…. besides so many of the great minds, wasn’t it king David in Proverbs that said, “the fool doeth despise reproof,” and, “a fool revileth the truth.” ?