Anyway, Mental health and addiction is no ecusse for this type of behaviour
Mental illness (or substance abuse) being mooted as a potential element should not automatically be confused with attempts to thwart sanctions, limits and refusals to allow the unsociable behaviors to blossom unfettered regardless of the impact on other people. Not least becuase pre packaged, albeit well meaning excuses are a poor alternative to adequate access to treatment, support and if required, mandatory residential placements for as long as needed, when essential to sucessful management and damage limitation.
I get more mental illness fueled abuse rained down on me in a typical quarter than your average Joe Bloggs sees in his life time. I am not unaware how distressing it is (especially having been up, quite literally all night, dealing with PheasantGate 5.0 which has escalated at warp speed nine) and I am not in favour of bespittled intolerance splattered all over the gen. public gaining acceptance in the name of...tolerance.
At the same time I can't condone ignoring MH and addiction or calling it excuse making, and pretending that the level of control impaired people have over their behaviors is equivilant to that of an unimpaired person.
I think it is wasteful, lazy and dismissive of the needs and rights of the impaired person, their family/loved ones and the public at large to insist on the expensive and useless route of trying to apply the same sanctions that are applied to well people, given that the hope of said sanctions playing a rehabilitave/preventative role are negligable.
I have known many people with addiction and mental health problems and none would spout this shit so it certainly is not an excusse for the views
It's not a one size fits all. Even within a single diagnosis like bipolar I you are going to find a huge variety of character triats, views, beliefs, behaviors, reactions, sysmptoms and responses to medication (including refusal to take them) and severity. Once you add in all the other sub types of the wider lable bipolar, that range and vairiety will expand. Then you have to add in all the co-morbid conditions, of which there are not a few, to compound the individuality of the resultant "behavior cocktail". And when you have done that you need to wash repeat and rinse for all other disorders, syndromes and conditions, of all sub types, and levels of severity within the sub type.
Then start again and add in addiction, which is no less complex and individualized.
Mentally ill people and substance abusers are still people. Regardless of some potential common behaviors, reactions and sysmtoms between a range of disorders you'd hardly expect them to be carbon copies of each other given that they are unique individuals.
Being a ranting, racist gobshite does not mean you are mentally ill.
Likewise being a ranting, racist gobshite does not give you immunity from mental illness.
Ditto addiction.
however I would say she looks like she is on street drugs rather than other wise mentaly unwell
The two, unfortuantly, are not mutually exclusive.
There are a quite a few markers in that vid that leave room for the possibility of something like MH, substance abuse or both going on. But I doubt even a leading psych would feel confident in ruling anything in or out in a definitive manner after watching a vid.