In a time when everyone feels bold enough to label and write-off those who don’t show up the way that they want or need them to, it’s important to question whether this approach to mental health and relationships solves any problems, or do they just create new ones.

We’ve grown lethargic in our efforts to understand others because we’re mostly focused, and the mainstream narratives hugely promote this thinking, on how others treat us, but rarely on how we treat them.

As always, we judge ourselves by our intentions, but we judge others by their behaviour. When we’re called out for our behaviour, we defend our intentions, but when they defend their intentions, they become narcissists or gas-lighters.

Something is horribly wrong with this picture.

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