A champion for women's rights and the rights of abuse victims, Patrick also fights for the "flip side of the coin" in his situation growing up--mental health and its effect on relationships. This is not to say that every perpetrator of abuse is suffering from a mental disorder. In this case, however, Stewart's father had PTSD, which can result in angry outbursts on the part of the person with the disorder. It could have been easy for Patrick to resent his father and simply ignore any underlying causes, but he didn't.
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