Reply #161: I just accidentally found this thread.

[Erika]

Please keep it alive or repost.

For those of us who have known mentally ill people, we acknowledge it exists, we have seen it.

Those people who want to come down so hard on Yates and view her as a criminal must have had no experience with the profoundly mentally ill. They are not criminal, they are sick.

As one with a broken back cannot be expected to walk correctly, nor can a person with an ill mind be expected to think correctly.

It's another one of those "walk one mile in my shoes" thing.