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To make a huge understatement, it can be extraordinarily frustrating. In personal situations, once you can identify it you feel less crazy because you know the problem is not with you and you are more likely to spot it in the future. In a broader context like with this study, if you identify the flaws, then people who…

No, but identifying gas-lighting takes most of the power away.

Or to name it for what it is.

Sorry, my reply was poorly worded and I didn't get to the edit button in time. The stigma against mental illness is the same, but people who have mental health issues may acknowledge it differently according to the societal pressures and expectations placed on different genders.

I've met many more man than that who have sought out treatment and were commited to improvement in my nine years of treatment, but even when men do seek it, there is still a tremendous bias regarding both type of care and level of care.

I think that the stigma applied to people with mental illness is the same regardless of gender, men are pressured heavily to bottle it or not acknowledge it (man up), while we women (who are constantly told that we are crazy even when we are not) are encouraged to look for signs of mental illness within ourselves.

Again, in different words: more women than men are self reporting mental health issues =/= more women are struggling with psychological issues.

Like there's not a gender bias in the mental health profession or the DSM.

I don't understand this logic. Good on you for being open about your mental health issues because it's not always the most intuitive path, but this does not negate the fact that many men are pressured by society to keep silent and then do not report their own emotional struggles.

This data isn’t illusory: it shows that huge numbers of people are struggling with psychological problems – and the majority of them are female.

Yes, I believe you've made that quite apparent.

Sorry, but you can't pretend that you are interested in justice or evidence when you've already told us what's important to you about this whole case.

"Perhaps you're reading too much into this one. They're just dolls."

I follow Severus Snape on Twitter, but so far he hasn't replied to me.

Ah, my apologies then. After reading it again, I can see that that's what you were doing. Sorry for the sarcasm fail :(

Wow, yes. I think that is a fantastic idea, and I'm so glad you thought of it. I think that's what happened in the comments last night for the article about the verdict, but it was really awful, and a lot of important voices ended up being silenced and drowned out. I'm honored that you are interested in my feedback…

Well, I liked it when you called people out for calling her psycho and a lunatic, but then you said that another commenter seemed "a little unstable" and suggested that "[m]aybe she should see someone about that" in a way that seemed very condescending. It's offensive and denigrating to people with mental illness to…

She is sweet, that designer, but I'm guessing I am missing something? I thought Amanda Palmer said that she couldn't decide between two dresses so she wore them both? And that designer is still making things for them. When I met Neil Gaiman a couple weeks ago, he said that she had designed the jacket he was wearing…

Yes, my God every single person on this post has said something awful and offensive regarding mental illness.