Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1962215-20140317132636/@comment-25926288-20151216201553

Killian Jones wrote: True, but the show never regarded it as a mental illness. They treat Zelena as a mentally ill character, when she is a perfectly healthy cruel person. Cruella, on the other hand, who looks more like a mental case, is treated as someone who just happens to splash in darkness.

EDIT: Wait, did someone call her a psychopath on-screen? I can't remember wether it happened on screen or here xD I think they don't try to use mental illness correctly or anything beyond simply evil and not evil. I think they see Zelena as perfectly healthy, just bizarrely jealous. Even though, she's in an asylum that means very little on show, because Sidney was locked up there and he was pretty much fine (even if you would think he has some weird Stockholm Syndrome).

I think they also don't really consider that magnitude of various things. They call Regina a sociopath, but it's not like she goes to therapy or something, plus she tends to still do evil things every now and then. Rumple is called a sociopath, but he's pretty much self-loathing.

At least, how I saw it was they think everyone is a product of their enviroment and their nature and it's all about the light and darkness in their heart or something. Archie, where are you?