For months, I've seen pop psychologists psychoanalyze Trump on their Facebook feeds. Rather than discuss his fascist administration, his white supremacist advisors, or any of the incredibly destructive policies he's put forward, they want to discuss his apparent mental disorder.

Here's the issue. Trump is not the person he is because of whatever mental illness he may or may not have. Mental illness certainly does not make someone a fascist or a white supremacist.

Let's be clear, this is absolutely not any sort of a defense of Trump's fascist regime. In fact, if you aren't calling him out, you are complicit in the oppression of his administration. But by centering the critique on his mental state, you further add to the intense stigma mentally ill folks have to deal with every day.

The narrative that mentally ill folks are naturally erratic, unstable, and ultimately dangerous is nothing new. For much of this country's history, mentally ill people were thrown into asylums (which often hosted intensely inhumane conditions), because they were perceived as threats to the general public.

Violent cultural depictions of mental illness have persisted to this day. Films like "Psycho," "Silence of the Lambs," and even the recent "Split," portray mentally ill people as deadly villains that ultimately need to be destroyed.

And these images have consequences. Despite the fact that mentally ill people are less violent than the general population, they are much more likely to be victims of violence. Much of this violence is due to the fact that neurotypical people have no experience with mentally ill people outside of seeing them as villains in horror films.

Violence is not the only consequence of stigmatizing mental health. Because of said stigma, oftentimes people have trouble discussing their mental illness which has the effect of making it worse. There's evidence that stigma against discussing mental health actually increases suicidal ideation.

I say all this as someone who is mentally ill. I've been in and out of therapy for much of my life and I take psychiatric medication. I find that when I casually mention this to people, even within activist circles, they often don't know how to respond because they aren't used to having those conversations.

So when you share a "Make America Sane Again" meme on Facebook, be aware that you're feeding a culture that causes mentally ill people to die. Instead of doing that, perhaps actually call him out on the things that he needs to be called out on.