VP Sara is not mentally ill

It's been more than a week since the two-hour rant of Vice President Sara Duterte and people are still talking about it.

- ANDREW J. MASIGAN

In her unbridled tirade, she threatened to exhume the cadaver of former president Ferdinand Marcos and throw his remains in the West Philippine Sea. This was followed by a threat to behead President Bongbong Marcos. These were just two of many controversial statements uttered by the VP, along with a good dose of invectives.

As one would expect, Sandro Marcos and Matthew Manotoc, both third generation Marcoses, condemned the words of the Vice President and alluded that she may be mentally unstable. Members of Congress and the Senate chimed in to reinforce the observation that indeed, the Vice President acted irrationally and is in need of psychiatric help.

The situation was not helped by the Vice President's videos that followed her rant. Several videos circulated on Tik Tok depicted her in a cabaret-like costume, dancing with her household help.

To many, it seemed "off," given the seriousness of her circumstances. After all, no sane person wiggles their hips in a feathered hat amid a corruption and competency investigation.

Last Saturday, I had dinner with friends from my high school alma mater, one of whom is a licensed psychiatrist. Of course, the topic of the evening revolved around VP Sara's supposed meltdown.

Everyone in the table agreed that the VP's rant was not a symptom of mental illness at least not in the clinical sense of it. Rather, it was a reaction of a "wounded animal" who believes she is unjustly persecuted.