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eLetters: Suffering of mentally ill not humorous, what's next cancer?
In response to: Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood: a neurodevelopmental perspective on A.A. Milne
Margot Diehl
Email: mdiehl@canada.com
Affiliation: None
Posted on: January 3, 2001
I came to your website to review the article 'Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood' after reading about it on a website. It was even worse than I anticipated. I fail to see the humour in being afflicted with a mental illness. As the parent of a mentally ill child, and friend and family member to others, I get to observe everyday the challenges and struggles faced by mentally ill or learning disabled Canadians. It is bad enough to live in a country like Canada with the lack of support and funding for the mentally ill, the caregivers and their advocates. But to have medical 'professionals' who should have compassion for and understanding of mentally ill patients use them for a source of amusement for them and their colleagues is despicable. You should be ashamed.
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