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Originally Posted by MotownJohnny
ong MH conditions. I guess it is the "non-threatening" ones that are "ok to talk about". Probably as well as the "trendy" ones. Bipolar, I think that's kind of a gray area. Once celebrities admit to having it, it DOES help with the stigma issue, IMHO. But many people are still embarassed or whatever.
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I was reading an interview with Jennifer Saunders the other day (Edina in AbFab), and this comment jumped out at me: "I wish someone really important would admit to procrastination and turn it into a disease." On the one hand-- she's hysterical.  On the other, it's actually a really provocative comment, because while celebrity admissions can bring out awareness in the public, it can also be in a very distorted manner, through the lens of the media feeding frenzy, of sensationalism and advertising dollars. Her pointing to the possibility of an effect like procrastination becoming validated as a disorder through that lens is revealing.
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