Excellent article!  This is an important message in addressing the pervasive stigma and discrimination associated with mental illnesses.  We need to recognize the importance of bio-diversity and advantages conferred through mental illnesses to society. Promoting the concept of mental illness as a being genetically driven, chemically mediated ‘broken brain’ where people suffer, and are a burden just contributes to greater pessimism regarding recovery, self-stigma, the desire for social distance and a greater tolerance for coercive treatment.