What social stigma you attach to mental illness??

Question

What do you think of when you find out someone has a mental illness? Are you horrified? Would you be more reserved around them? Would you stop being friends with them? Honestly, what is your first reaction to someone with a severe or chronic mental illness like schizophrenia? Please don't fake it 'cause I really wanna know what stigma you attach to the mentally ill.

Answer 1

If I like or love that person, it doesn't do anything.

If I know that person and we are not friends, then we stay the same.

One time I sort of knew that this political aunt was mentally ill because she would act so weird.

Answer 2

I suffer from a mental illness myself, I currently suffer with PND (post natal depression) And i find people that people try to wrap me up in cotton wool allot of the time, they treat me differently now, than b4, they chose their words, they wont tell me certain things, if I'm having a bad day, they ask me if i have remembered to take my tablets for that day!!!

I hate it, its really awful, i want people to treat me normally, I'm no different at all, except i suffer from thoughts in my head i would never be able to tell anybody about!!!! but on the outside...I'm me!!!

People give you a wide berth, they think I'm going to depress them and bring them down, but its totally not like that at all... Its just the STIGMA that's attached to it, that has made people the way they are.

Hope this has helped you a bit.

Answer 3

Personally, I don't attach any stigma onto you. It is an illness just as if you had heart disease or diabetes.

Mental illness is stigmatized because of pure ignorance. Also, I think the popular media perpetuates it. Whenever, we hear about a school shooting or mass murder, the killer is often described as having a "mental illness." I am a psychology major hoping to go to grad school for a PhD in psychology so I find mental illness so interesting. I have found out that mental illness is NOT correlated to crime/violence. This means that people with a mental illness, in general, are not more likely to commit crimes than people without a mental illness.

I have some mental illness problems myself. I have anxiety and occasional depression. I began seeing a psychiatrist for hte anxiety and my mother started to use it against me. Whenever we would argue, she would say "Why don't you go see the psychiatrist, you sick little girl."

People that stigmatize people that are mentally ill are ignorant and uneducated. They also are immoral.

Sure some hateful, uneducated person might stigmatize you, but people with knowledge of mental illness will be understanding.

I will also mention that a friend of mine that is a psychiatrist explained that schizophrenics are actually committ less crimes, on average, than people without mental illness. I also learned that when they are medicated, they are able to function extremely well.

I have a lot of respect for you and I admire your courage. We need more people like you to come out and be a voice for mental illness. We need to educate society on these issues.

Answer 4

It is not that person's fault that they have a mental illness. Mentally ill people need to have friends too. YES still love them........ Maybe do some research to know how to react the things.

Answer 5

How?

Look in the real world.

After being hit on the head too hard with the Book of the Dead of failures and horrors of the past that grew with time.

What does one expect the dead Mummy being "Reincarnated" from the twilight zone to do in different time zone.

When the ATM with the old model CPU from the twilight zone keep on whirring " Out of service"

That read " It does not compute" in different time zone?

Luke 9.25,55-56,60

Having schizophrenia?

Were just exposing traces of the past and present in having twin personality in time.

With the twin personality having the past without the present.

What do we expect them to do in time.

But to call them loony tune.

When they aged with time and poor vision with lost sense of direction could no longer upgrade themselves in time.

Luke 8.5-8,10-17

With self lack of knowledge.

To keep them quiet.

We just drug them out from their sorrow living in misery like cave-men from the twilight zone in different time zone.

Taking for granted with self lack of knowledge being unable to trace or solve their misery in time.

Luke 6.39-40,41-45,46-49

What do you think?

Answer 6

I would attach more stigma to the behavior than the illness itself.  If the illness is treatable, and the person is making an effort to be treated, thus reducing the behavioral problem, then I would admire the person for following through.  If the behavior affected me negatively, I'd attach a stigma to the behavior, and if the person was hateful to me, I 'd be tempted to stigmatize the illness.  

Answer 7

i known a guy who was a paranoid schizophrinic  I myself stayed away from the guy cause you never know whats gonna happen he can flip out and not know what he's doing because the person that has the problem dont think hes gotta problem  in the first place I didnt hang out with him untill he got on some medications that he needed because people with the problem got a chemical inbalance and needs meds as soon as possible to correct the problem now the guy is normal with the medications just be carefull because like I said he can get evil and not even know it....