Stigma
Thank you so much
everybody for your comments yesterday. It has given me a much needed
boost to keep going. I may well have another wobbly day ( or two) but
I won't give up!
The stigma of any
type of mental illness, not just BPD, makes many patient’s problems
worse. It has a negative affect on their lives because of prejudice
and discrimination. It is so important that people with mental
illness be treated with respect and dignity and not judged or
labelled.
The attitudes of
others can be as big a burden as the illness itself. The stigma can
even keep people from being diagnosed in the first place. There is so
much misunderstanding about mental illness, for example, that it is
self-inflicted or that it reflects a weak personality. There are
often negative and inaccurate portrayals of people with mental
illness in the media which shape our ideas of what it actually is.
The mentally ill
continue to receive negative attention due to ignorance and fear.
People view them as "crazy", dangerous or unstable but that
is simply not the case. Maybe that is one of the reasons I am writing
these posts, so that people understand it more with the facts and
accounts of someone going through it.
People need to be
educated about it and others with mental illness may gain some
courage to enable them to talk more openly about it.
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