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Originally Posted by WastingAsparagus
I can think of NAMI walks.
MI does not compare to systemic racism and violence.
There are instances of people with MI being harrassed by the police, but those people are likely already part of a population that is likely to be harrassed by the police.
There's a stigma of MI. But it's not comparable to systemic racism.
Systemic racism is endemic.
Some psychiatrists say there's a stigma towards psychiatrists and MI patients.
But, has any psychiatrist has been harrassed by police; been killed by police; been discriminated against on the basis of being a psychiatrist; been thrown in jail unjustly; been subjected to the death penalty unjustly; lost years of his/her life because of a lengthy prison sentence that is arguably unjustifiable; lost educational opportunities; been denied public benefits; or anything of the like?
I would think not. Maybe there's like one psychiatrist ever... I use the psychiatrist example, but you can replace that with MI patient and it still (mostly) holds true.
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I hear you. But, I could direct you to literally hundreds of severly mentally ill people in my state alone who have received horrifically unfair treatement by our legal "system" due to their MI. I lived with them. 20 years for a schizophrenic who fell asleep in a house with an unlocked front door when he was psychotic? People held illegally for years and years and years because they are not capable of udnerstanding their own legal rights and advocating for themselves. I could go on all month... I wrote a book about this.