Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...metaphor, a plot device or a put-down. "There is hardly a moment when we turn on television or read newspapers that we don't see violent stereotypes or hear bad jokes at the expense of the mentally ill," says Nora Weinerth, co-founder of the National Stigma Clearinghouse, which organizes protests against prejudicial images of mental illness in the media. "When children are told that a superhero will be killed by someone who is mentally ill, it stigmatizes us." Backed by research showing that mental illness is biological in origin -- like cancer or heart disease -- patients and advocates...
...stigma borne by present-day patients "is harder to live with than the illness itself," laments Joanne Verbannic, a Michigan grandmother employed at the Ford Motor Credit Co., who at age 25 had paranoid schizophrenia diagnosed. "Every time I read about a 'paranoid killer' or hear on TV that the weather will be 'schizophrenic,' I feel like someone has put a knife...
...Like it or not, people retain a stigma about professional counseling, seeing a therapist," said Kim of Room...
...said that a relative lack of stigma associated with peer group counseling is one of several advantages services like Room 13 have over the professional centers...
...such a stigma does persist, it does so in part because students get inaccurate ideas about psychotherapy from television and movies, Ducey says...