This probably won't go over well, but let's try.
I'm skeptical of how much mental illness stigma actually exists anymore. Ignorance is certainly a problem, but not stigma. The way mental disorders are so cavalierly thrown around in common parlance implies to me that it isn't some terrible, frightening taboo as it once was (which is what "stigma"implies to me), but a lack of deeper understanding still abounds.
That's where I think the concern should be: ignorance. That's what causes the disapproval, the dumb comments, the demands to get over it. I might go so far as tomsay there is no mental illness stigma anymore. Which is kind of weird, since you would think that we would have to conquer the ignorance around the subject to accomplish that.
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