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Article: Discrimination against individuals with mental illness.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Rehabilitation
- Article date:
- January 1, 1997
- Author:
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Mental illness affects one in four American families (National Institute of Mental Health, 1988). Further, approximately 2.8 percent, or 1.5 million, of adults in the United States have some type of serious mental illness (National Advisory Mental Health Council, 1993; O'Keeffe, 1994). Serious mental illness includes stress related brain disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and chronic obsessive-compulsive disorder (Liberman, 1992). Discrimination is prevalent despite the large number of persons affected by mental illness. Gelb (1980) has claimed that persons with mental illness suffer from prejudice and discrimination because they appear deviant and are ...