| Mental illness can strike anyone! It
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| | people with mental illnesses may
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| knows no age limits, economic status,
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| | experience hostility, discrimination, and
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| race, creed or color. During the course
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| | stigma.Why does stigma still
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| of a year, more than 54 million Americans
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| | exist?Unfortunately, the media is
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| are affected by one or more mental
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| | responsible for many of the
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| disorders.Medical science has made
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| | misconceptions which persist about people
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| incredible progress over the last century
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| | with mental illnesses. Newspapers, in
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| in helping us understand, curing and
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| | particular, often stress a history of
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| eliminating the causes of many diseases
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| | mental illness in the backgrounds of
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| including mental illnesses. However,
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| | people who commit crimes of
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| while doctors continue to solve some of
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| | violence.Newspapers, in particular, often
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| the mysteries of the brain, many of its
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| | stress a history of mental illness in the
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| functions remain a puzzle.Even at the
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| | backgrounds of people who commit crimes
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| leading research centers, no one fully
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| | of violence. Television news programs
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| understands how the brain works or why it
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| | frequently sensationalize crimes where
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| malfunctions. However, researchers have
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| | persons with mental illnesses are
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| determined that many mental illnesses are
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| | involved.Comedians make fun of people
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| probably the result of chemical
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| | with mental illnesses, using their
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| imbalances in the brain. These imbalances
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| | disabilities as a source of humor. Also,
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| may be inherited, or may develop because
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| | national advertisers use stigmatizing
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| of excessive stress or substance abuse.It
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| | images as promotional gimmicks to sell
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| is sometimes easy to forget that our
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| | products.Ironically, the media also
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| brain, like all of our other organs, is
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| | offers our best hope for eradicating
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| vulnerable to disease. People with mental
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| | stigma because of its power to educate
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| illnesses often exhibit many types of
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| | and influence public opinion.What Is A
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| behaviors such as extreme sadness and
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| | Mental Illness?A mental illness is a
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| irritability, and in more severe cases,
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| | disease that causes mild to severe
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| they may also suffer from hallucinations
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| | disturbances in thinking, perception and
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| and total withdrawal. Instead of
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| | behavior.
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| receiving compassion and acceptance,
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