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Maybe a government permit of the type that qualifies certain people to buy explosives and carry pistols under their coats should be required for the driver of an SUV. Do you travel on dirt? Do you haul a livestock trailer? It wouldn't remove the stigma, though. As long as some people are living larger than average, they will be targets for grumpy puritans and prohibitionists who, if they ever manage to get their way over SUVs, will refocus their wrath on "professional style" kitchen ranges or riding mowers above a certain horsepower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why I Luv My SUV | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

...desire to travel ties into an awareness of the stigma attached to squash as an exclusive sport...

Author: By Brenda Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Squash Captain Downs Nation's Best | 2/6/2003 | See Source »

...treatment for particular conditions. (If your treatment doesn't jibe with the DSM, you may not get reimbursed.) DSM diagnoses can be used by courts to lock you in a mental hospital or by schools to place your child in special-education classes. A DSM label can become a stigma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diagnostics: How We Get Labeled | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...family to see how schizophrenia touched its members across four generations and how the family coped with the disease. In some ways, their story is uncommon--most schizophrenics don't have a family history of the disorder. In other ways, particularly in their struggle to deal with the stigma and isolation of a mental illness, the Beales of Howard, Ohio, are all too typical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Schizophrenia: One Family's Burden | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...cautiously optimistic. Dana is thriving, and though he is at greater risk of developing schizophrenia at some point than a child without an afflicted parent, there is a better than 80% chance that he will not. The Beales have also learned to cast aside the feelings of shame and stigma that are still too often attached to schizophrenia. "My mother had cancer," Velma says. "I'm not ashamed to talk about that. Why should I be afraid to tell people about mental illness?" Peter's brother and sister also talk openly about his condition with their friends and co-workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Schizophrenia: One Family's Burden | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

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