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Old Sep 20, 2010, 07:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Popskid View Post
I know that real depression and mental illness exist, but I think that society is making it so common that it is difficult to view mental illness as the truly disruptive and fatal thing that it is. They treat depression (and anxiety disorders) more like some emotional form of the common cold. Like depression is something that is unpleasant, but that everyone gets from time to time. Maybe that is why stigma is increasing.
Interesting. But it also seems possible to me that some mental health "advocates" and drug companies have increased problems by how they have presented severe mental illness as solely "biologically based" (and thus "those people" are different from "us").
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