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Peremptory speeches by HRAC officers were included priceless gems of inanity. HRAC president N. Van Taylor '96 called the HRRC "a debating society" and HRAC second vice-president Brian J. Erskine '96 bemoaned the "stigma about being a Republican...
...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...
...Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, a leading mental-health advocate, persuaded one North Carolina company to pull ads featuring cans of peanuts in straitjackets promoting a product line called Certifiably Nuts. One of her annual mental-health-policy symposiums at Emory University's Carter Center was devoted entirely to stigma issues. "We are all concerned about stigma," she says. "It holds back progress in the whole field...
...stigma is even being passed on to the next generation. DC Comics insists that Superman's killer was never meant to be portrayed as mentally ill, but another of its comics features a character named Shade. "Greetings from the mental states of America," said one of its early promotion circulars, "where every citizen has the right to remain deranged...