stigma
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Say NO to Testing on Humans!
I was at a conference this week. I sat and listened to tests that had been undertaken on “schizophrenics”- the good news is it is now in hyphens. Heard about “token experiments” when people were given tokens for behaving nicely. Heard about people being given watches that bleeped at certain intervals. Saw symptoms divided up,… Read more
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STIGMA, how it hinders recovery.
The Stigma around hearing voices, in particular Schizophrenia is severe. the SANE guide to stigma states “Stigma causes harm in lots of ways… It blights the life of people with mental illness, cause stress and unhappiness in the lives of their friends and families too, and damages society as a whole.” It discourages help seeking,… Read more
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