My post definitely contains ignorance because it isn't something I understand particularly well. I just think that everyone goes through stages of being either up or down and that there are also a lot of times when things are quite stable and surely going on that criteria we all have mental problems. It's just life, it seems too glib to trot out the "oh, he's got mental problems" line. It just seems to me an already made excuse for a complete lack of self responsibility for ones own actions. You can look at Charlie Sheen for instance and see that he has issues, but to what extent is it simply a spoiled rich kid who has been able to do what he wants with no checks and balances or is it really a serious mental problem? I just wonder where the line is sometimes. Do we have people booking themselves into rehab because they can't be bothered to look after new born babies? The lines are blurring. Now a good old fashioned schizophrenic is what I refer to as a proper mental case, but depression and all of this? I'm sure there is a lot behind it, but I'm sure a lot more of it is excuse making for not wanting to face up to the cold, hard facts of existence.

I suppose I am quite British in that I believe a stiff upper lip, some moral backbone and a hardened attitude should suffice.