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Mental health features helping combat stigma
I want to commend you for your sensitive and very readable series of features on mental health.
There is a still a stigma attached to mental illness (or "mental distress" as I've heard it called by people wanting to be politically correct), yet so many people suffer from it at some point in their lives.
Even if you never have, it's still an inherently interesting and varied subject, as your pieces show.
I especially like your use of case studies to draw the reader in.
One suggestion - please write a piece about obsessive compulsive disorder. It's very common, so a lot of people will be able to relate to it.
And it will make a compelling read.
Selena Mendelssohn, Tooting
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CommentPosted by: Harold A. Maio, US on 9:24pm Fri 9 May 08
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"There is a still a stigma attached to mental illness,"consistentl
y by the Guardian.
As an advocate I wonder why editors so consistently make that choice, and an entirely different one for rape. How were you trained to one, untrained to the other? Who were your trainers?
Harold A. Maio
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American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Board Member
Partners in Crisis
Former Consulting Editor
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal
Boston University
Language Consultant
UPENN Collaborative on Community Integration
of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities
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khmaio@earthlink.net
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guardian.co.uk/inter
active/letters/wands
worthletters/display
.var.2261283.0.menta
l_health_features_he
lping_combat_stigma.
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"There is a still a stigma attached to mental illness,"consistentl
y by the Guardian.
As an advocate I wonder why editors so consistently make that choice, and an entirely different one for rape. How were you trained to one, untrained to the other? Who were your trainers?
Harold A. Maio
Advisory Board
American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Board Member
Partners in Crisis
Former Consulting Editor
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal
Boston University
Language Consultant
UPENN Collaborative on Community Integration
of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities
Home:
8955 Forest St
Ft Myers FL 33907
239-275-5798
khmaio@earthlink.net
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