Tag Archives: mental illness
Challenging the stigma
Spastic, Idiot, Moron, Retard. Not merely playground insults, these terms were once actual psychiatric diagnoses. Such is the stigma of mental ill health, they were hijacked to become terms of insult. The label mental illness is highly stigmatising. It encourages … Continue reading
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Not the end of the world
People without experience of depression fear the condition. It does not help that sufferers are sometimes thought of as violent and it is this reason that people are afraid to admit to their suffering for fear of being branded in … Continue reading
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Pull yourself together!
At the start of the twentieth century, if you spent an extraordinarily excessive amount of time stating how brilliant you were, you would simply have been dismissed as simply being arrogant and a bit bigheaded. Now, it may be possible … Continue reading
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