@theauthentichousewife: As we wait for the Lindsay Clancy verdict… can we talk about how "mental health crisis" is doing two completely different jobs depending on who's using it? When a woman in Times Square stabs two people, kills one, and gets shot by police, the headlines call her "emotionally disturbed." That's it. That's the whole conversation. No campaign. No hashtag. No one demanding compassion for her circumstances. She's just... gone, and the story moves on by next week. But watch what happens the second mental health gets raised in a courtroom instead of a headline. Suddenly it's not a tragic footnote, it's a defense strategy. It's "she didn't know what she was doing." It's character witnesses and expert testimony and a whole apparatus built around asking us to see the person behind the act. I'm not saying either reaction is wrong. I'm saying pick a lane. If mental illness explains behavior, it explains it consistently, whether the person lives to stand trial or not. And if it doesn't excuse behavior, it doesn't excuse it just because someone hired a good lawyer and stayed alive long enough to use the word in front of a jury. We don't actually have a mental health standard in this country. We have a convenience standard. It shows up when it's useful and disappears when it's not. So here's my actual question, no gotcha, just genuinely asking: what would it look like if we treated "mentally disturbed" the same way no matter who said it or when? What if we didn’t use mental illness as an excuse to take a life or do horrific things. Tell me where I'm wrong. Tell me where I'm right. Just don't tell me it's simple, because clearly it isn't. #nyc #MentalHealth #lindsayclancy

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