i seriously doubt the stigma surrounding mental illness will ever be absolved. i'm used to being categorized, while i don't like it.... it is what it is. i am used to it. doesn't help that serial killers generally have "mental illness" as well, lol. and to be frank, i couldn't care what anyone thinks about me as a person, i don't really care about stigma. people who don't have mental illness are stigmatized as well; whole races are stigmatized. no one ever talks about that though, at least not here. there are bigger worldly issues than the stigmatization of mentally ill people. ...just saying.