Seems a very black and white, reductionist perspective to say all women are the same and all men are the same and the two are different from one another. Completely ignores issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, class, nationality, age, etc. etc. from the equation. I would need you to spell out in what ways women are pretty much the same and men are pretty much the same. Sounds like confirmation bias surrounding gender roles/norms to me. Do you think women are more emotional and men more logical, for example??

I worked in the correctional system( medical department) for a while, the first one was a prison slash psychiatric facility. They had six psychiatrist on staff and saw this. They got intensive therapy for years. Later I worked at the maximum security penitentiary that had death row. The number of prisoners with moderate to severe mental illness would shock you. The psychotic were more treatable than the sociopaths and scarier than the truly psychotic , at least they could be treated effectively. Sociopathic people will truly kill again be it staff or other prisoners.

I am in total agreement with your post. Holding hatred or negative judgments in your mind brings you pain and sorrow but has no effect on anyone else. I suspect that you are very good at your work.

It is true—we are all about the same from a higher perspective, and in fact our higher selves might actually BE the same—extensions of universal consciousness.

Being serene and loving inside is actually an asset when dealing with dangerous people. The police, for example, do not become angry when they hear of a crime in progress. They leap into action out of duty.

Isn't it an established fact that sociopaths/psychopaths are basically wired up differently from the rest of us, most likely due to genetic effects.

Psychopaths seem to be the case of "dangerous animal" - but sociopaths... perhaps if we were all trained to recognize them and treated their behavior as a condition so could integrate them. Unfortunately it seems like there are way to many people just too gullible to deal with them in a safe way.

I think working to accommodate differences and weaknesses that people may have into so society would go along way to keeping people from falling into wrong paths in the first place.

I work in long term care and rehabilitation (of elderly as opposed to drugs). The amount of misunderstanding, intolerance, and hpstility toward people who are clearly just anxious or struggling mentally is profound to me. It shows itself in small and large ways nearly every day.

It is obviously present in all areas of society but it seems particularly gross to me in the context of healthcare workers with complete control over the lives of people who can't leave. It will be the end of this job for me sooner or later.

As a neurodiverse person myself this is distressing beyond belief.

I've had fairly limited access to healthcare for most of my life but when I have tried to get mental help it has been brushed off and disregarded for the most part. Ive seen the stigma involved at the hospital where I work when people need help (non criminals, usually suicide attempts or drug overdoses or people who have mentioned the word suicide and have been "petitioned and certed" ). The disregard for their realities or hardships and the loss of their rights. As a low income single parent I hesitate to delve into my issues with any healthcare provider at this point because when I do It always begins a bit like an examination of my parenting. I know the system has a history of not being fair to people like me once boxes start being checked..

Anyway that went in a different direction than intended but I can relate to alot of your sentiment. There isnt much difference in me as someone else who may be in a place exposed to drugs or more prone to violence or sexually divergent due to circumstances and small choices and experiences leading to where they are. It upsets me that the system available for them is the same one I'm seeing and contemplating which seems to be woefully misguided and completely inadequate.

I'm in the USA not Australia but I'm pretty sure that misguided and or inadequate mental healthcare is not unique to nations. As well as societal stigmas.