
Stephen Hinshaw, “Understanding ADHD” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Neuroscience
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The Stigma of Mental Illness
The stigma of mental illness is a topic i'm quite interested in. Wrote a book on this a few years ago, cried the mark of shame. It turns out that if you had to pick three things, or three attributes in to day's society that people even consciously admit, we'll say, i don't want to be around those people. I stigmatize them, people with mental illness people who abuse drugs and people who are homeless. Those are the bottom three. And we tend to put those together. Ad sometimes they do actually go together. Stigmas really sthk it from the iron clad proof of some sort of physiological proof then there all of a sudden comes along
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