From now on, people like @truthinitiative will demand movies w/ cute, good-looking girls being mentally ill, as long of course as the bitter, grim reality of mental illness & consequences isn't shown. Or tobacco, my god, can't show the tobacco. But romanticise the mental illness.
https://twitter.com/Gurdur/status/1482183229335556096
I'm sure we can all see what the consequences of romanticising mental-illness will be. That's done already a fair bit in Hollywood. But all y'all will be happy to know no ciggies will get shown, no tobacco, heaven forfend.
There's a theory that people with certain types of mental illness, & separately people with certain types of bad autoimmune conditions, smoke tobacco as an unconscious form of self-medication. It's definitely plausible as a theory (nicotine has odd, wide effects).
Nick Cohen did a very good article on the cruelty of forbidding psychiatric patients to smoke ciggies. One psychiatrist I know of made a counter-point; nicotine affects how much of some psychomeds gets absorbed & metabolized. Even so, you could alter dosage for that, with many.
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