Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seriously mentally ill man. I wish to inform Harvard students of general information concerning mental illness...
Today, roughly one in four families have a mentally ill person as at least a relative. But this fact is not realized by the general public largely due to the fact that people do not talk about their problems related to mental illness...
Today, unlike in the past, there are many very effective medications available for mentally ill people. Many seriously mentally ill people, with medical treatment, can recover to a degree that allows them to function adequately in mainstream society. The mentally ill are no longer people requiring quarantine from society. Mentally ill people, with the benefit of medication, can be indistinguishable from normal mentally healthy people...
...this understanding that I wish for Harvard students to appreciate. The mentally ill can no longer be humanly justified to be ostracized by the population...
Hollywood, in its drive to make shocking, profitable movies, has described mentally ill people in a manner that has caused the population to have unjustified fear of mentally ill people. Generally speaking, mentally ill people are not dangerous. Even the vast majority of medically treated psychotics pose absolutely no danger to anyone...