Mental illness vs. Physical illness

[Rudey]

In "Empathy and the Practice of Medicine", Howard Spiro provides a case-study on how young doctors make jokes about someone with mental illness and tries to get the reader to understand what sympathy and empathy are in this scenario by cementing that mental illness is an illness just like any physical illness.

But it's not just the same. One forces other people to be affected by you on a daily basis through any interaction you have with them.

So how do you all feel? Do you dislike the "psychos" or are they really just sick souls that need compassion and understanding?

-Rudey