Allan was taken into police custody on Sunday night after a car crash in Wellington and was charged with reckless driving and resisting arrest, the prime minister said.
I mean yes, but also no. Self regulation and impulse control are both things you need solid executive functioning for, and if you’re dealing with mental illness that may take up a good amount of your ability to respond well to things. There’s a good chance that the behavior arose from the mental health condition.
Which does not excuse the behavior - she was in a position of power and responsibility and has failed to behave as she should in that role. If she couldn’t keep it together to behave professionally to her staff or exercise the basic common sense it would have taken to call an uber then she should have stayed on leave. But it’s pretty obvious her judgement has become quite clouded.
There’s also the stage three cancer diagnosis and treatment, just to throw it in there, and honestly who knows what triggered the breakdown on Sunday evening?
As everyone says it doesn’t excuse the alleged behaviour, nor the decisions (whoever’s ultimate responsibility it was) to press on with a job as stressful as a Ministerial position when she mightn’t have been in a necessary frame of mind. As far as explaining it, though, I’m sure all this crappy stuff adds up between herself and those around her.
I hope she finds a less stressful and more rewarding way to contribute somehow when the time allows.
I mean yes, but also no. Self regulation and impulse control are both things you need solid executive functioning for, and if you’re dealing with mental illness that may take up a good amount of your ability to respond well to things. There’s a good chance that the behavior arose from the mental health condition.
Which does not excuse the behavior - she was in a position of power and responsibility and has failed to behave as she should in that role. If she couldn’t keep it together to behave professionally to her staff or exercise the basic common sense it would have taken to call an uber then she should have stayed on leave. But it’s pretty obvious her judgement has become quite clouded.
There’s also the stage three cancer diagnosis and treatment, just to throw it in there, and honestly who knows what triggered the breakdown on Sunday evening?
As everyone says it doesn’t excuse the alleged behaviour, nor the decisions (whoever’s ultimate responsibility it was) to press on with a job as stressful as a Ministerial position when she mightn’t have been in a necessary frame of mind. As far as explaining it, though, I’m sure all this crappy stuff adds up between herself and those around her.
I hope she finds a less stressful and more rewarding way to contribute somehow when the time allows.