A couple of weeks ago, my friend shared this touching story on Facebook, along with a video of him sitting next to a stranger on a plane: A touching story indeed. However, it didn't end there. The Sun posted the story two days ago. And then the Daily Mail did. The Metro (a free London paper) interviewed him and printed it yesterday. And then it hit America when Huffington Post ran the story. It doesn't stop there. It's now hit... Hong Kong! And they covered it in their typical, hilarious manner: http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/international/art/20161020/19806860 Watch the video. OH. MY. GOD! Simply hilarious! (By the way, we all have the greatest sympathy for our friend's condition, of course, and are dead chuffed that the right person came along at the right time. He sent him a video to help with the flight home, too. Jim himself finds it amusing that it's travelled so far and thinks the cartoon is absolutely hilarious!)
Very useful - several people had issues with adblockers on that site. Thanks! I'm not sure what you hope to achieve with that comment - I assume it's a ban for inane, racist comments. A man with a medical condition was assisted by a person trained to assist who happened to be there by coincidence. They were then moved so the expert could monitor his condition for the rest of the flight, rather than my friend have another episode on the plane and freak other passengers out or even unintentionally cause a dangerous situation.
Mental health is poorly understood by the large majority of the population, unfortunately. I guess Ergot is one of these people who thinks that depressed people should just 'cheer the f*ck up, mate'.
A lot of disorders are either over diagnosed, or misdiagnosed. The criteria for so many mental disorders overlap that I think a lot of people think they have one disorder when it's something else entirely. So even with in the field Mental health is misunderstood. The DSM V tried to fix that problem but I don't think it did a good enough job and the ICD-10 still has 50 shitzillion different disorders somebody could have.
