I agree. Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Robert Poste's Child Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > Sue Wrote: > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > ----- > > > > > > > > This person must surely have been mentally > > ill? > > > > > > Why do you feel the need to say this? It's a > > > horrible thing to have happened to Jamie > > whatever > > > was going on with the perpetrator. > > > > > > Yes, of course it was a horrible thing to have > > happened. > > > > What in my post made you think I have anything > but > > sympathy for the victim? > > > > ETA: A post above says the hammer attack "was > the > > culmination of a period of harrassment by the > > perpetrator whose hair Jamie had cut but wasn't > > happy with it". > > > > My point was that that was not normal behaviour > > and therefore there may have been a reason for > the > > attack other than pure malice and aggression. > I'm > > sorry if I didn't express it very well, but I > > don't think it is irrelevant to the thread. > > I really dislike the casual labelling of mental > illness many people still go in for whenever > someone does something they don't consider > acceptable behaviour - it doesn't help the > situation and just makes anyone who does have > mental health problems feel even more stigmatised. > I'm sure we've had this conversation before, > though, and I saw someone else made a similar > point on a different thread the same day.