That you believe is all that is necessary to those who want you to believe. So long as the belief is in you it has life.
—Would these anti-stigma towns also happen to be anti-segregation?
You have caught onto the game: They want to place the term stigma prominently.
—-Do you have any literature that I could read up on to support these malevolent intentions from the early days of NAMI? I’d be very interested to read.
How much more malevolent can an organization get than to insist there is a stigma to mental illnesses?
While other advocacies have as their motto, “race for the cure”, NAMI continues to insist there is a stigma to mental illnesses, and its mantra, “reduce the stigma”, says it wants to keep some.
Sorry you believe in it. That means you believe in the people who direct it. They would like you to do that. It gives them power.
Believing in a stigma directs behaviors. See WWII, how far that belief can carry someone.
Believing in a stigma directs behaviors. See rape/stigma and the history of behaviors it precipitated.
See the history of mental health.
Believing in stigma prevented achieving all the progress that has been made in addressing other illnesses, precipitated all the negative behaviors that followed.
Belief in stigma continues to precipitate those behaviors. People continue to precipitate a belief in stigma, some through very organized channels, and though not one negative act can be traced to one individual uttering that prejudice, the term has no other purpose than to harm.
Allison Malmon founded Active Minds after her brother killed himself. She declared that he died because of the stigma of mental illness.
I cannot say why he died. I know only that he did.
I can say she believes it was because of “the stigma” of mental illnesses.
That belief may have killed him. I do not doubt the power of a belief in stigma to kill. That is why I foster no such belief.
—-“How to reduce both violence and stigma”,
Who mentors anyone into believing a stigma is worthy of deep distrust.
The word “professional” has historically little meaning.
—Work to reduce stigma
Work to lend it credence, and then “reduce” it? Seems wholly contradictory to me.
—-combating the stigma surrounding mental illness,
I wonder what lies behind our need to validate “the stigma of mental illnesses”?
Surely it is a self-destructive act.
Psychiatrists, psychiatry have sufficiently negatively represented themselves. They need no outside help.
“Almost every mentally ill perpetrator of mass violence had been symptomatic and untreated for lengthy periods of time before their crime,— because they (or their families) did not seek treatment or they refused it.”
His argument is too facile and convenient.
—Amazingly, however, the suggested response to these problems is to continue pursuing the search for the biological underpinnings of so-called “mental illness”
Your quotes are misplaced, it is “mental” illness. The claim that an illness is “mental” misleads. Neither pneumonia nor schizophrenia are mental conditions.
Directing a “stigma” is counterproductive. Validating a “stigma” is counterproductive. Mindlessly repeating a claim of “stigma” is counterproductive.
I am at a loss to explain why we do. It is uncivil.
I am not sure we do anyone any good repeating terminology employed against us.
“Assisted Outpatient Treatment” ” stigma”
The Guardian says do to employ that term, while it continues to do so.
That you believe is all that is necessary to those who want you to believe. So long as the belief is in you it has life.
—Would these anti-stigma towns also happen to be anti-segregation?
You have caught onto the game: They want to place the term stigma prominently.
—-Do you have any literature that I could read up on to support these malevolent intentions from the early days of NAMI? I’d be very interested to read.
How much more malevolent can an organization get than to insist there is a stigma to mental illnesses?
While other advocacies have as their motto, “race for the cure”, NAMI continues to insist there is a stigma to mental illnesses, and its mantra, “reduce the stigma”, says it wants to keep some.
Sorry you believe in it. That means you believe in the people who direct it. They would like you to do that. It gives them power.
Believing in a stigma directs behaviors. See WWII, how far that belief can carry someone.
Believing in a stigma directs behaviors. See rape/stigma and the history of behaviors it precipitated.
See the history of mental health.
Believing in stigma prevented achieving all the progress that has been made in addressing other illnesses, precipitated all the negative behaviors that followed.
Belief in stigma continues to precipitate those behaviors. People continue to precipitate a belief in stigma, some through very organized channels, and though not one negative act can be traced to one individual uttering that prejudice, the term has no other purpose than to harm.
Allison Malmon founded Active Minds after her brother killed himself. She declared that he died because of the stigma of mental illness.
I cannot say why he died. I know only that he did.
I can say she believes it was because of “the stigma” of mental illnesses.
That belief may have killed him. I do not doubt the power of a belief in stigma to kill. That is why I foster no such belief.
—-“How to reduce both violence and stigma”,
Who mentors anyone into believing a stigma is worthy of deep distrust.
The word “professional” has historically little meaning.
—Work to reduce stigma
Work to lend it credence, and then “reduce” it? Seems wholly contradictory to me.
—-combating the stigma surrounding mental illness,
I wonder what lies behind our need to validate “the stigma of mental illnesses”?
Surely it is a self-destructive act.
Psychiatrists, psychiatry have sufficiently negatively represented themselves. They need no outside help.
“Almost every mentally ill perpetrator of mass violence had been symptomatic and untreated for lengthy periods of time before their crime,— because they (or their families) did not seek treatment or they refused it.”
His argument is too facile and convenient.
—Amazingly, however, the suggested response to these problems is to continue pursuing the search for the biological underpinnings of so-called “mental illness”
Your quotes are misplaced, it is “mental” illness. The claim that an illness is “mental” misleads. Neither pneumonia nor schizophrenia are mental conditions.
Directing a “stigma” is counterproductive. Validating a “stigma” is counterproductive. Mindlessly repeating a claim of “stigma” is counterproductive.
I am at a loss to explain why we do. It is uncivil.
I am not sure we do anyone any good repeating terminology employed against us.
“Assisted Outpatient Treatment” ” stigma”
The Guardian says do to employ that term, while it continues to do so.