Looking back at the original contribution is provided me an opportunity to look back at the event. At the time time I did try to understand the illness in question. Although I never did prejudge the person involved, it did give me a first hand experience into mental illness. What the experience me taught me is that mental illness should be considered an illness and not something that puts a person into an irreversible situation. And secondly, that it is something that can effect us all in some way.
That is, that illnesses of this nature be happen to anyone and those around us can do something to help that person. Often it is not the person's actions that can cause this illness. As we have learned in the readings