So, how many here have met mental health "professionals" on here?

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3. Yes...I think I see your point. The thing is

that in the "us/me" vs "them" perspective--

The least defensible them for providers is clients,
the least defensible them for care providers is the cared for,
the least defensible them for bathers is the dirty.

Within a social fabric where people must complain to feel good about how hard their jobs/lives are the mentally ill are pretty low on the totem pole of shared valuation.

It's possible to understand and accept that phenomenon as some people's attitudes toward jobs which engage mentally ill people and to not actually accept those person's attitude toward mentally ill as being within the domain of goodness on a measure of good to bad.

Things are not as we might wish they would be.

Life is full of disappointment.