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Originally Posted by pachyderm
"A new large scale research study published in American Journal of Psychiatry has found that despite a greater embrace by the public of neurobiological explanations for depression (and other mental illnesses) there has been no decrease in prejudice and discrmiination [sic] towards people who suffer from them."
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"in all of the surveys and across all vignette conditions, holding a neurobiological conception of mental illness either was unrelated to stigma or tended to increase the odds of a stigmatizing reaction"
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...ression-stigma |
I'd say that it takes time and a lot of experience for the general public to change their mind/s about prejudice. That's a general rule in society.
Perna did make a good point about all of the advertisements on tv and in magazines. I seriously believe that it turns a lot of people off. It certainly turns me off ~ and I suffer from half of the symptoms & side effects that these medications may inversely cause. Annoying advertisements really don't help me any. I think that our society has reached it's limit in sympathy and understanding of medication treatments.