Does mental illness drive bad behavior on Twitter?

Or is Twitter taking a mental toll on all of us?

¹There’s a really thoughtful and illuminating piece in UnHerd today about the interplay between mental illness and bad behavior online. Tom Chivers, the science editor for UnHerd, tackles an incredibly fraught topic with kindness and nuance — I’d strongly recommend giving it a read.

One thing Chivers points out is that, while it’s a good thing to avoid di…