IGI Global is calling for chapters in a forthcoming book, Deconstructing Stigma in Mental Health. The purpose of the book is to provide a historical context of stigma in the mental health field as well as potential strategies for stigma reduction.
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Mental “Health” is a major contributor to bigoted attitudes or “stigma.” What’s next? Is the K.K.K. going to set itself up to deconstruct racism?
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All the DSM “disorders” are stigmatizations, I agree FeelinDiscouraged. We could get rid of the stigma if we got rid of that scientifically invalid “bible,” and rid the world of those who believe in the anti-American theology taught by the DSM’s proponents. “All people are created as equal” is a much better theology.
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Yes, another exercise in redundancy.
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I don’t know about you, but it seems like we’re getting a lot of this lately and it’s aggravating. I think it’s time for the next step to actually challenging the power of psychiatry and the drug companies. I just don’t know how to go about doing it in the backwater state that I live in.
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Hoosierville’s not the best place for an anti-psychiatry movement. Especially when my family and most friends are content to get all their information about “mental illnesses” off the idiot box programs which are heavily sponsored by Big Pharma.
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The one group which stigmatizes the so-called “mentally ill” more than any other is that of psychiatry! Ironic huh???? So, do we get rid of stigma by getting rid of psychiatrists?? Sounds like a winner to me!
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I’m thinking of starting an anonymous satirical blog. It would be set up like a professional blog written by a fictitious shrink. Dr. A.J. Quackenbush. He would defend psychiatry’s biggest blunders and villainies in a way that defied human logic, ethics and science. (Not sure enough folks would figure out it was a farce though!)
We can fight “stigma” by pinning the stigma where it rightfully belongs. On the Mental Illness Makers themselves. By attacking their credibility and characters we can encourage the mainstream folks to question the validity of the DSM serial and whether those who have been stigmatized by the quacks are the moral monsters they accuse us of being.
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I have to laugh. “Stigma” reduction, not “stigma” elimination!? “Stigma” is built into the selling of mental health treatment. We make the receiving of mental health treatment more “cool”, if that’s what it is, and trendy by talking about reducing the “stigma” attached to receiving it. People aren’t going to “consume” or “use” your product if it’s billed as increasing “stigma”, one negative among many, and if you eliminated “stigma”, you’d have no product. It’s your bill of goods, not mine.
