Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...traveling by plane, the pressure of being in public may be enough to quell quarrels among siblings; if it isn't, you can always trade seats with one of them. Unfortunately, there's no stigma attached to brawling in the car, and there's less room for rearranging bodies. (The safest place for any child 12 or under is in the backseat, with the proper safety restraint.) Candyce Stapen has resorted to masking tape to stake out territory for her two kids, but pillows and rolled-up sleeping bags work...
Each state blundered differently. Washington State tied community mental-health spending to the size of welfare rolls, a sign of stigma itself. In Illinois, the state often paid nursing homes to take many of its patients. But old people and mentally ill people don't have the same needs, and few nursing homes hired the staff needed to treat the different set of patients. A bill before the Illinois legislature would require those hirings, but the efforts come too late for Russell Weston Jr. In 1996 he became an outpatient at an underfunded community mental-health center in Waterloo...
...Tipper Gore and the reformers are to educate Americans about mental illness and hence reduce its stigma, they will have to be honest about such complexities. But openness about mental illness isn't easy. Gore has at times even seemed reluctant to share her saga. She refuses to name the medication she took, and she gives few details about the nature of her depression, saying mainly that it emerged after a car accident that nearly killed...
Such pressures affect those who work daily to fight stigma. Consider Michael Faenza. "If I didn't take medication for depression, I would drink a quart of Jack Daniels every week to slow my thoughts enough to go to sleep," he said recently. At first he asked that the comment not be printed. But then he reconsidered: he is, after all, president of the National Mental Health Association, a 90-year-old advocacy group. "That's one of the pieces in this puzzle, to remove the shame," Faenza says. "It takes some courage to do that...
...under the rug? The conference, says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, "was an attempt by her to forge an image of herself" early in the presidential sweepstakes. Gore, a longtime -- albeit low-key -- advocate for the mentally ill, has recently acknowledged having suffered from depression. With the possible stigma of that ordeal very much in mind, says Branegan, the gathering "was also one way to get out in front of her battle" before it could become an issue for her husband?s campaign...