Psychiatric patients are unpopular. This is often perceived as discrimination and therefore unfair but it is also true that the troubles many patients create so often spread far beyond the bounds of their own pathology. Often they recognise this and it is a cause of personal distress, but recognition is not a solution and adds to the distress. Cressida in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida is one who recognises her destructive pathology only too well, the face she presents to the world is her unkind self, and she cannot shake off its maleficence. This issue exposes quite a few unkind selves.
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