Exploring The Stigmas of Mental Health Treatment

In this video Dr. Sylvia Fogel discusses her research into the stigmas that surround the use of medication to treat mental health disorders. Dr. Fogel surveyed psychiatric residents in NYC and found that even within the field there was a stigma against revealing current or past use of psychiatric medications. Here she discusses why these stigmas might exist, and how we might move beyond them.

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News & Politics

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• mental
• health
• treatment
• stigma
• psychiatry
• psychology
• depression
• schizophrenia
• bipolar
• disorder
• therapy
• psychotherapy

[TellEveThat]

Not every jew is sick but they all are carriers of mental illness. In 1900 there were 1,058,135 jews in the USA while in 1970 there were 5,868,555 which is an increase of 454.8%. In 1900 there were 62,112 persons confined in public mental hospitals in the USA while in 1970 there were 339,027 which is an increase of 445.7%. In the same period the USA population rose from 76,212,368 to 203,211,926, an increase of 166.6%. Prior to the influx of jews the USA was a mentally healthy nation. No more.

[JTSchnaars]

What about the million other changes that occured in those 70 years? What about the increased pace of life, or the decreasing willingess of families to support their mentally ill family members at home? You are cherry picking one number because it helps you make a point that you had already decided on before you saw any evidence.

[MrLouisrocko]

I have tried about ten different types of anti psychotics. I still do not believe that I am mental. I had a bit of a breakdown in my life when my work contract ended. I also lost my partner. I was depressed and couldn't find work. Sometimes I wish there was a way back to normal life. People are sometimes too quick to enforce their beliefs onto others. I believe that all I need is some help to get me back to what I was. I believe my condition is circumstantial and temporary.

[MrLouisrocko]

There is a stigma against psychiatric medication because evryone knows how terrible it is. It causes problems with the pancreas and can lead to problems in the blood. It can cause man breasts which produce milk and weight gain. Also sexual disfunction. It switches dopamine off. I was a normal guy who worked in high end jobs before being on the mental system on Britain. Someone decide I had something. I couldn't argue and had to take the treatment. I'm against forced treatment.

[winstono75]

There will always be stigma attached to psychiatric medicines. Because taking a medicine implies that there is something wrong with you.

[fliszt27]

@TellEveThat Just because there was an increase in Jews that co-incided with an increase in persons confinded doesn't mean that ALL or even a small percentage of the extra PEOPLE CONFINED were Jewish.

What is behind your hate and anti-semitism?

[miriamhyde]

Thanks for your sanity, JT

[miriamhyde]

Eve-il:

When Nazis murdered the mentally ill in death camps, obviously one of your relatives escaped.

Mental illness is manageable; stupidity is not.

[miriamhyde]

I am on medications and in talk therapy. I wish I had found this help years ago. Most of my life would not have been wasted suffering.

I just wish she was easier to listen to.

[TellEveThat]

Johns Hopkins U. has been studying for a long time the obvious link between jews and mental illness. You can find the web page by googling "Why study ashkenazism?"