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Fostering a sense of community, as Putnam suggests, leads to healthier individuals, and stronger communities. Our community must actively work to reduce the stigma surrounding issues of mental health and look out for signs of emotional distress in our friends. By supporting efforts to increase the transparency and accessibility of campus mental health services, Harvard can be a place where each student feels confident, safe, and a sense of belonging...
...It’s important for people to embrace that word because there’s such a stigma around it,” said Laramore. “Having people come out as feminists in a public way will bring people closer to the term and allow them to really...
Undoubtedly, there is a stigma that is attendant to being bailed out by the IMF, which most often works with developing nations that are facing severe economic problems. However, Greece and the EU must not be so proud as to turn up their nose at the only realistic alternative that does not entirely sacrifice Greek sovereignty or reach beyond the limited powers granted the EU. Giving Greece this slap on the wrist for its economic mismanagement would also encourage other troubled eurozone economies that may be counting on the cushion of Franco-German bailout to finally institute meaningful fiscal...
...study was small, and the children of the parents who participated were treated at three hospitals (two in Boston and one in Minneapolis-St. Paul), which does not lend much statistical power to its findings. But given the considerable social stigma about euthanasia in the U.S., where only two states, Oregon and Washington, have legalized physician-assisted suicide, researchers think that the percentage of parents admitting to having thoughts about hastening death is probably lower than reality. (See how to prevent illness...
...night. It has been diagnosed with ever greater frequency, and the number of vaccines given in childhood has also grown in the past 20 years, making them an easy target for blame. Experts believe much of the increase in autism-spectrum-disorder diagnoses stems from better detection, less stigma and broader definitions of autism, but this explanation fails to satisfy many afflicted families...