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Article: Should we destigmatize mental illness?
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- May 1, 1996
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THERE IS no more common cry in the mental health world than the cry to destigmatize mental illness. Over and over, primary players in mental health argue that the stigmatization of mental illness sufferers is the cause of underdiagnosis of those so afflicted and unfair treatment of the mentally ill.
The Congressional Quarterly has described the following "victories" in the fight against the stigmatizing of the "mentally ill":
* The National Stigma Clearinghouse, a network of advocates for the mentally ill, successfully campaigned against giving comic strip hero Superman's killer a psychiatric illness.
* The National ...