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Originally Posted by ScientiaOmnisEst
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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I understand what you're pointing out, but when push comes to shove believe me, most people will either think or say, 'Eh, she's nuts, anyway' if a mentally ill person does something unusual, or even simply disagrees with the person. Mental illness is like racism in that way. The stigmatizing is sneaky.
The subject of this post is exactly why I don't like the idea of people dressing up as 'crazy' for Halloween.
Is mental illness taken as seriously as cancer is? Nope.
Example:
http://forums.psychcentral.com/bipol...ur-meds-2.html