| I mean, I can understand it, in the sense of, someone has a limited picture / a busy day / not the time & emotional resources for which to be able to also think compassionately about someone else in need. Or sometimes responsibility is diluted in institutions so an institution can act in a way that's devoid of compassion, where an individual acting face to face could not. (I hope you did not read me as objecting to your comment, just "expanding the picture") To understand how someone could exclude someone from campus with depression, I'd have to start positing the existence of events / information we don't have. Usually if a health care professional decides they are a danger to others, that is when people get sectioned. This is common place stuff. Virginia Tech is not common place stuff. Maybe the people at Virginia Tech were depressed or something, I don't know. But, so what? Hitler was an artist. There's always the "historical psycho" exception to every rule. Mathematics causes Unabombers? These events are in the popular imagination, but it's a reaction coming from fear. In cases like depression it's particularly important for people around a person to act from compassion, open-ness etc. Just "being there" is enough. Saying "I'm here..." is enough, you have no idea how a small thing like that can make a world of difference without you feeling like it's even a thing you had to give. |