# Talking About Mental Health

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 10, 2021, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talking-about-mental-health/946178 "2021-07-10T20:23:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talking-about-mental-health/946178/5 "2021-07-11T01:02:17Z")

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I’ll be the first to say that mental health issues are important, and there should be no stigma attached to getting help for mental health issues.

But let’s put this in context (I’m guessing this is the context). **Sunny\_Daze** had just called a poster a troll and a racist out of the blue.

> [@I Pit Martin Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde/944407/133):
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> This is tired BS that trolls like yourself like to parrot. It doesn’t seem to occur to you that people get called racist because they are racist.

and then called the same poster a “dumb fuck” in the very next post

> [@I Pit Martin Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde/944407/134):
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> Your cite is your post? Dumb fuck.

He responded with

> [@I Pit Martin Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde/944407/136):
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> Hey, I notice in this thread: You were thinking of getting therapy–you probably should, you obviously have emotional/mental problems.

Then **Sunny\_Daze** came back with

> [@I Pit Martin Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde/944407/137):
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> I guess I’m living rent free in your head now. Enjoy my posting history. rofl

> [@I Pit Martin Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde/944407/141):
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> Keep on fucking that chicken, my dude. Your pathetic gotchas are making me laugh.

I’ll have to say that if someone is insulting me out of the blue when I don’t even know who they are, I tend to wonder about what brought the attack on.

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