In a way it made me feel better about how I viewed mental illness.
Mental illness can be many things and effect many different ways from mild to crippling. Till you hit the most dysfunctional mental illness, a lot comes to whom you are as a person.
I think at least in my era and area, mental illness was getting much better understood and we were finding sometimes some actions are influenced or caused by an illness. The mind set kind of swung too far, as we saw it then spread to outside influences.
I'm old enough to remember Columbine shooting well, there was not one spec of blame passed to the shooters, depression, bullying, stress, and video games etc etc. Not one these were some terrible people doing something awful. It has back lashed a bit and people are seemingly becoming less accepting of it thanks to even in main stream cases of awful actions passed off as a mental illness.
I've always thought, we all have our crosses to bear, some people are non functional and those people tend to be well, drooling quite literally. Schizos are of avg if not a touch higher IQ on avg, they are fully smart enough to take their meds (if they can get them) With out sperging on side track of care systems in different countries, a large amount of times we see horrid cases, there were options.
You aren't an idiot or a bad person for having a mental illness, people whom are in this group are probably the largest amount of the mentally ill, it's up to you if you choose to get treatment and manage life.
Much like other things in our lives, battling mental illness comes from if you are willing too. Some people have illnesses they can have a fully fledged life with no serious down sides others a reduced life,some people need treatment others don't.
tl;dr
You can be a good mentally ill person or a bad one.
