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    | The Stigma Surrounding Mental Health | | | Theresa | 5/20/2013 | | Who would you consider to be stronger‚ someone who is battling cancer or depression? There is no definite way of telling who is stronger. Most people would say the patient battling cancer because they are suffering from a physical condition and cancer patients are often perceived as hero’s where as people with a mental illness are labeled as being “crazy”. No illness of any kind should be looked down upon‚ but

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    Stigmas In Call Me Crazy

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    Films that portray characters with a mental illness often also portray them in accordance to the stigmas that surround these various disorders. Stigma is often considered to be a negative stereotype‚ where one will judge another on a characteristic ("Stigma and Discrimination - Canadian Mental Health Association‚ Ontario Division"). One film that highlights an overt expression of multitude of stigmas towards mental illness is; Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (CMC)‚ which has five sub-films within the

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    Abstract a) Down syndrome b) Interesting topic c) Understanding why down syndrome occurs Introduction a) Who discovered Down syndrome b) What is Down syndrome Body research A. What Causes it and is it inherited? 1-Trisomy 21 2-Mosaic Down syndrome 3-Translocation Down syndrome B. How Down syndrome affects Kids 1-Physical features 2-Learning C. Risk factors 1-Advancing maternal age 2- Being carriers of the genetic translocation for Down syndrome 3-Having

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    Stigma and discrimination go hand-in-hand‚ especially when it comes to mental illness. According to the Wisconsin United for Mental Health website‚ “. . . people with a mental illness would rather tell their employers they have committed a petty crime and were in jail than admit to being in a psychiatric hospital.” Herein lays the core effect of stigma associated with mental health issues – discrimination and diminished self-worth. Frequently‚ stigma against people with mental health disorders involves

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    Victoria Downs Mr. Eddie Paden English 101 April 3‚ 2014 Her name is Haley; she is healthy‚ smart‚ and excels in school. Haley is one of my younger sisters‚ and she has Down’s syndrome. I was young when my parents found out that they were going to have a child with Down’s syndrome‚ and we weren’t sure how things would be for our family or for Haley. As I grew up I came to realize what the next lifetime with her as a sister would entail. Today Down’s syndrome is a common disorder in the United

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    Self-stigma has long been an issue and consequence for people suffering from a mental illness‚ despite an increased understanding of diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders‚ negative attitudes and misperceptions about those living with mental disorders are still prominent today (Ward‚ 2014). When individuals are faced with the onset of a mental illness such as schizophrenia‚ stereotypes become more relevant to the self. That is‚ those suffering from the mental illness may choose to incorporate

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    Misunderstood:The Negative Effects Of Stigma On The Mentally Ill “Stigma is a social construction that defines people in terms of a distinguishing characteristic or mark and devalues them as a consequence.”(Dinos Socratis) There is an undeniable stigma associated with people that have mental illnesses‚ in society they are treated differently and are even sometimes discriminated. The feeling of being stigmatized often times has negative effects on the lives of those individuals such as “depressive

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    symptoms of the disease but also the stigmatization of their mental illness. Stigma is not a new concept and it does not solely affect people with mental illnesses‚ stigma has been around since social societies started to develop and it affects most minority groups. For a person with mental illness dealing with stigma from the general public can impede or even eliminate the possibility of having a successful

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    Stigma around mental health in the modern world is no longer forcing people with mental illnesses into asylums and subjecting them to horrible torture such as electroshock therapy for being deemed too dangerous or scary to function in the outside world‚ but instead is deeply ingrained in everyone‚ regardless of mental health status. One in four Americans‚ thirteen percent of ages 8-15‚ and twenty percent of ages 13-18 experience some form of mental illness‚ and there are many more who do not have

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    Down’s Syndrome Down’s syndrome is a genetic condition involving an extra chromosome‚ this change occurs around the time of conception. A person with Down’s syndrome has forty-seven chromosomes instead of the usual forty-six. A relatively common genetic disorder‚ Down’s strikes 1 out of 600 babies. In 95 percent of all cases‚ the disorder originates with the egg‚ not the sperm‚ and the only known risk factor is advanced maternal age-at age 35‚ a woman has 1 chance in 117 of having a baby with

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