Please Research Mental Health More
First, I want to be clear that I usually thoroughly enjoy this podcast. However, the coverage of Mica Francis makes me feel as if mental illness isn’t thoroughly understood or researched by the hosts, which, to be fair, isn’t uncommon. As someone who is bipolar, I can 100% understand how Mica may have just snapped, and that something pushed her over that final decision-making-cliff, even if Mica herself wasn’t bipolar. While I understand that such a concept can be difficult to comprehend, there is a LOT of research to back up this type of behavior prior to someone ending their lives through suicide, which leads me to my problem with this podcast: just because it’s a hard concept to grasp doesn’t mean it’s not what happened, and I feel like this possibility is being ignored by the hosts, which is extremely disappointing when the rest of their reporting seems to be so in depth and carefully researched. Or worse, they are choosing to ignore it because suicide isn’t as dramatic as the other theories. Either way, the lack of accepting that suicide, that Mica may have just snapped & the suicide wasn’t a premeditated action, is a legitimate possibility for Mica’s death feels disingenuous and incongruent with the typical caliber and unbiased reporting that made me a fan of their reporting to begin with. As someone who also comes from a writing/communications background, it’s disappointing to feel like I found a podcast that utilized traditional journalism with unbiased reporting that has begun slipping into unfounded speculation, especially when doing more research into pre-suicidal actions would provide the possibility of answers to some of the most basic questions surrounding Mica’s actions the day that she died.
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