The weakness must become strength again and only then will the person be treated as someone deserving respect. If illness happens to be an episode that happily comes to an end, even then it is never allowed to be forgotten. If signs of mental illness return, for example, instantly the person is accused of not taking the advice that was given long ago and being essentially responsible for the current condition. How much we need to understand the road that any suffering person walks. If we do not walk that way, how grateful our hearts should be and how full of compassion for the other.
Human nature is too fragile and frail for anyone to presume on continued strength.
With a mind that perceives that any suffering could be ours, let us hold out a helping hand to all. Let us place ourselves ever beside, never above another, for one day it may be we who have to take the lowest place.