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Stigma: Building Awareness And Understanding About Mental Illness

Mental illness can strike anyone! It knowspeople with mental illnesses may experience
no age limits, economic status, race, creedhostility, discrimination, and stigma.Why
or color. During the course of a year, moredoes stigma still exist?Unfortunately, the
than 54 million Americans are affected by onemedia is responsible for many of the
or more mental disorders.Medical science hasmisconceptions which persist about people
made incredible progress over the lastwith mental illnesses. Newspapers, in
century in helping us understand, curing andparticular, often stress a history of mental
eliminating the causes of many diseasesillness in the backgrounds of people who
including mental illnesses. However, whilecommit crimes of violence.Newspapers, in
doctors continue to solve some of theparticular, often stress a history of mental
mysteries of the brain, many of its functionsillness in the backgrounds of people who
remain a puzzle.Even at the leading researchcommit crimes of violence. Television news
centers, no one fully understands how theprograms frequently sensationalize crimes
brain works or why it malfunctions. However,where persons with mental illnesses are
researchers have determined that many mentalinvolved.Comedians make fun of people with
illnesses are probably the result of chemicalmental illnesses, using their disabilities as
imbalances in the brain. These imbalances maya source of humor. Also, national
be inherited, or may develop because ofadvertisers use stigmatizing images as
excessive stress or substance abuse.It ispromotional gimmicks to sell
sometimes easy to forget that our brain, likeproducts.Ironically, the media also offers
all of our other organs, is vulnerable toour best hope for eradicating stigma because
disease. People with mental illnesses oftenof its power to educate and influence public
exhibit many types of behaviors such asopinion.What Is A Mental Illness?A mental
extreme sadness and irritability, and in moreillness is a disease that causes mild to
severe cases, they may also suffer fromsevere disturbances in thinking, perception
hallucinations and total withdrawal. Insteadand behavior.
of receiving compassion and acceptance,



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