Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Stigma: The double whammy

By Las Cruces Sun-News

In 1999, then Surgeon General David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., released the office's first report on the state of mental health care in the United States. He found that two-thirds of people with a diagnosable mental illness never seek treatment.

The reason for this fact, he said, could be traced to the stigma -- the persistent negative projection of mainstream society upon

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