"They need professional help"

[girraffeduck]

Often the phrase "they need/should seek/get professional help" is used in the context of saying someone is acting stupid or nasty

But unless someone wants support from mental health services and genuinely suffers symptoms beyond grumpiness, unfriendliness, or being daft... do people really think there are services out there opening arms to fix people's characters or attitudes for you?

Professional help just doesn't exist for twats.

Just ranting. It annoys me. Mental health services aren't there to police people into behaving

It goes one step further though - it implies that people who do suffer from MH problems aren't nice people and twats, which is really offensive and stigmatising

I'm with you on this, the stigma around mental health is bad enough without people continuously labelling bad behaviour as "he must be mentally ill". Nope, he's probably just an arsehole.

Exactly, Bombardier, some people are just c words, aren't they?

They're not always depressed, have anxiety or additional needs, etc - they're (like you said) arseholes.

Yeah and people with MH and even additional needs can also be arseholes

Having them or not doesn't exempt you from the ability to be one

It's the sneering behind it though - that people can go to get help from MH services to stop being knobs

No. You can go to get support and treatment with mental health problems. Not so with twattery. Even MH services cannot fix that