Why do you think there's still so much stigma surrounding mental health issues?

[Anonymous]

[noemiii]

Because unfortunately, all mental illness is still being grouped as a whole instead of on individual levels. Realistically, depression, anxiety etc. are socially accepted and celebrated, but things like autism, personality disorders have a long way to go. Then you have the very stigmatized mental illnesses like schizophrenia and narcissistic personality disorder.

Unfortunately this is just how it is and how it will be for a while. Mental illness has always been grouped as a whole and the word itself is stigmatized.

[Anonymous]

Most mentally ill people take their medication and want to improve. But right-wingers like to say people like Nicholas cruz is mentally ill even though there is proof that he was faking hearing voices.

Most serial killers are not mentally ill. They are fully aware of what they are doing just like Nicholas Cruz. They kill for sexual pleasure or because they are anger at the world.

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[rigmarole]

I don't know, maybe because in 1993 Lorena Bobbitt chopped her husband's dick off while he was sleeping and threw it out of a moving car window. Oh or maybe it's because Jeffrey Dahmer had four human heads inside his apartment when he was arrested. Crazy people have a bad reputation that they have well earned over the years.

[boggboss]

People throw around terms online around the subject or self diagnose it whilst blaming it for the behaviours that take place whilst it as a whole still needs massive steps forward to understand and help with

[inhua]

because society plays a huge role in creating mental health issues in people but addressing that would make people look themselves in the mirror and people hate self-reflection