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Why do people treat people with mental illnesses like trash?

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People treat those with mental illness badly, (including people with addictions and compulsions which are now medically recognized as brain illnesses) primarily because they are afraid of what they can’t understand. They want to distance themselves from what they fear and that creates their hostility. read more

Here’s my first rule of thumb: Treat someone with mental illness as a person, not as an illness. After all, all humans have vulnerabilities as well as strengths and our humanity is found in the sum of our parts, not just in one or two. read more

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