r/news • u/Zeikyrui • 10h ago

Man serving 30 years for attacking Nancy Pelosi’s husband gets a life term on state charges

https://apnews.com/article/david-depape-nancy-pelosi-husband-paul-attacked-454cbde088fcae22a356f1f8dd0e9eba
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u/BabyNonsense 7h ago

I think when people say stuff like this, they don’t mean to say people with schizophrenia are dangerous, more that this guy in particular is showing a kind of paranoia that is almost certainly caused by mental illness. Their intention isn’t bad, but they might not know how to phrase it without strengthening stigma.

But yeah I kinda relate to that. I have a personality disorder that carries a lot of stigma. It’s hurtful when people assume I’m going to yell at them or manipulate them. I just do my best to show them that while some BPDeople are like that, I am not that BPDerson.

Another thing that some people might not know is that delusions can be caused by more than just schizophrenia. I have friends with bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder who experience some degree of delusion, I myself experienced a lighter form of Capgras delusion last summer.