Tessa, there is so much I disagree with you on it would take too much of my energy to unpack. It’s your opinion and that’s cool. But you appear to be rather monomaniacal when it comes to this, so I’ll just leave it. I read some of the other comments on this article and I saw what you said about your history. I can’t imagine how difficult that must have been for you and I’m not going to pretend I can relate to your experience. I of course have my own cross to bear, having a single mother that was institutionalised and pretty much abandoned by everybody but me. I myself have been suffering from psychosis for most of my life. If you may permit me an observation, I feel your suffering may have closed you up, where as mine opened me. I have a very different attitude to empathy (which I believe you may have been confusing with sympathy). True empathy is the the last great hope for our species. You may feel like this is wishy-washy nonsense that’s no good to anyone, but know that you are loved (if you don’t already know). I’m not your enemy, I don’t consider to be in competition to you—we are a human community and gain much more from raising each other up.