{"id":102,"date":"2015-12-16T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dark-night.org\/?p=102"},"modified":"2024-05-22T18:26:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T23:26:05","slug":"the-stigma-of-mental-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dark-night.org\/index.php\/2015\/12\/16\/the-stigma-of-mental-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stigma of Mental Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, a British periodical published a story that serves to underscore the stigma of mental illness. A pizza was delivered to the staff at a psychiatric hospital. On the ticket, the address was characterized as the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/12054305\/Pizza-delivered-to-hospital-with-loony-bin-note-shocks-mental-health-staff.html\">loony bin<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><a><\/a>It seems likely that this was unintentional, just a thoughtless attempt at humor. Nevertheless, it is a perfect example of how people with mental illness are often stigmatized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People who wouldn\u2019t dream of demeaning a person based on race, religion, nationality, etc. often have no qualms of calling someone a \u201chead case,\u201d \u201cpsycho,\u201d \u201cloony,\u201d and worse. We are treated as though mental illness were a sin, rather than an illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s more than just a hurtful name. It\u2019s one more reason why mentally ill people don\u2019t seek treatment. They don\u2019t want to be held up to ridicule. When mentally ill people don\u2019t get the treatment they need, many of them die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, a British periodical published a story that serves to underscore the stigma of mental illness. A pizza was delivered to the staff at a psychiatric hospital. On the ticket, the address was characterized as the \u201cloony bin.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stigma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dark-night.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dark-night.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dark-night.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dark-night.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dark-night.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dark-night.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/dark-night.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dark-night.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dark-night.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dark-night.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}