I think maybe it is me who needs to apologize englishteacher. I was attributing the idea of mental illness being evolutionary to something you had read and were commenting on. I thought you were just tossing out an idea you had read to see what others thought. I think I may have been mistaken in assuming that. I was responding from that place, sort of in debate mode. I did not mean to come down on you for anything you were thinking.
So my comment about people putting a positive spin on things was directed at an anonymous other. If I had thought it was your idea, I would never have written that. I would have found a friendly way to disagree, or I would have left that part of what I wrote out entirely. it is too late for me to unwrite that sentence, but please believe me, the attitude it reflects is not and never was directed at you.
I was not careful in my assumptions, and I did not stop to check my reactivity either...Sorry sorry sorry