Do you think mental illness is still stigmatized today? I think it certainly is, even though the days of lobotomies and insane asylums are long gone. Working in EMS, it is sometimes appalling to see how some so-called "healthcare professionals" treat mental patients, ranging from condescending attitudes to downright unprofessional verbal and sometimes physical abuse.
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Do you think mental illness is still stigmatized today? I think it certainly is, even though the days of lobotomies and insane asylums are long gone.
I live a kilometer away from a mental health institute. They keep the kinda rough ones so it's hard to clear out stereotypes around here. The "nurses" are 250lbs + guys. There's a couple of animal experimentation rooms with tiny operation tables and hundreds of cages.
Or maybe it's just built ACCORDING to the stereotype, you never know
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Certainly. I have two members of my family who work or worked with the mentally ill (one working with elderly mentally ill and the other in an actual mental health block). They told me a lot of stories about how even recently they'd seen families disown people, people lose jobs and homes, all because they'd been diagnosed with a mental issue.
I think part of the problem is that few people outside health professionals and those suffering from illnesses actually understand what is happening and there is still a lingering bias that the mentally ill should be seperated from society.
Even something like depression is still treated poorly. My own case is one in particular. I found that explaining that I had depression often turned some people against me. The attitude seemed to either be 'get on with it and cheer up' or 'you should be in hospital'. Even now I'm still hitting a lot of brick walls.
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One of the most valuable highschool experiences I had was when we, instead of going to Barcelona or Paris, were set to work in various mental institutes and hospitals for a week.
Big eyeopener and it permanently changed my view on psychiatry.
(Also, the parties were heavy when we got back to our dorm )
On the way to work this morning I saw a homeless woman pushing a shopping cart full of trash. She was braless beneath a fishnet shirt, screaming at the traffic. I also watched many of my students shuffling past her as they walked to school.
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