The sad part was inno's "yeah, seems like he's just a bad person" remark. I didn't want to get too personal in a public forum, but when I'd met Rob, I met a man that was anything but lazy. He was disciplined to the core by his experience at the hands of cops that he'd never since missed a day's dose of lithium -- despite having some rather unpleasant side effects. He's a brilliant man, his writing is phenomenal. But to talk to him, he seems slow. When you say something, it's like his brain take a minute to process it. There's a noticeable delay in a response, though it's a very well spoken response. He held a Masters in English but was working as a labourer for Habitat for Humanity at like 6.65 / hour. This was the only job he could get that would allow him to basically stop coming to work for long periods of time when he was hospitalized. He was anything but lazy.
So yeah, it infuriates me to see people dismiss mental illness as laziness or a personal failing.