I quote "mental illness and addictions, understanding changes everything." Does this bother anyone else? I mean, they wouldn't do a commercial about cancer and discuss addictions.[/quote]

This is interesting. I guess we could all agree that, in all spheres of human life, understanding changes everything. So why single out mental illness & addiction & then lump them together? I'm surprised they didn't also include mass murder & serial killing. These also typically get thrown into the mental illness basket. It seems like the tendency nowadays is to chalk any behavior society abhors up to mental illness. I guess now that the devil is sort-of out of favor, society needs some other agent to which it can ascribe aberrant behavior. And mental illness is it...