It no longer feels like the "Land of the Free" to me. In fact, it feels very "alien" now. Part of that is my condition itself, the paranoia/quasi-paranoia/hypervigilance whatever the heck it is. Part of that is that I became suddenly aware of entire levels of existence in the MI/Mental Health spectrum I had no clue about, and hundreds of new and scary things entered my life suddenly, whether I wanted them to or not.

I think that a rational and fair approach to dealing with issue of X above would be case by case, to have each person with a mental illness evaluated independently by two doctors who could decide whether or not their MI was serious enough to merit denial of the right to X. But our law makers didn't see it that way, it was just blanket denial. Which is discriminatory and stigmatizing.