Another stigma is that the mentally ill are dangerous. Recent debates about gun control and mental health in America have really outlined that concept - that people want to contain the "mentally ill", write different rules for them, create special laws regarding them, etc. There are so many problems with this, however, that I'm really afraid of what direction this will all go. Will depressed people be labelled dangerous? Will people who have bi-polar be prevented from getting jobs? Will there be special "flags" in some national database marking certain people as being potential dangers to society...