Mental Illness in YA Month Discussion: The Responsibilities of Authors With and/or Writing About Mental Illness

This is the third post which was inspired by young adult podcast YA Oughta's Mental Health episode, which featured Lydia Ruffles and Tom Pollock in conversation with Chloe Seager and Katherine Dunn, in which they talked about writing about mental illness, representation, and many other things. One of the things they talked about that I'd like to discuss is, is there any responsibility for the author

1. Who has a mental illness to write about it?
2. Who writes about a character who has a mental illness to name the diagnosis?

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