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    Misconceptions About Mental Illness Everyone Should Abandon

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    1. The document discusses common misconceptions about mental illness, including that people can recover with drugs alone, that they cannot hold jobs or care for themselves, and that they are always violent. It notes the importance of understanding mental illness and providing love, care, patience and understanding to those affected. 2. The author's main source of information about mental illness comes from their previous job working in a physician's office where they treated various illnesses. 3. News reports of violence can perpetuate stigma, but the real issue is lack of access to needed help and support for those struggling with mental health conditions. Common conditions are often misunderstood.

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    1. The document discusses common misconceptions about mental illness, including that people can recover with drugs alone, that they cannot hold jobs or care for themselves, and that they are always violent. It notes the importance of understanding mental illness and providing love, care, patience and understanding to those affected. 2. The author's main source of information about mental illness comes from their previous job working in a physician's office where they treated various illnesses. 3. News reports of violence can perpetuate stigma, but the real issue is lack of access to needed help and support for those struggling with mental health conditions. Common conditions are often misunderstood.

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    1. The document discusses common misconceptions about mental illness, including that people can recover with drugs alone, that they cannot hold jobs or care for themselves, and that they are always violent. It notes the importance of understanding mental illness and providing love, care, patience and understanding to those affected. 2. The author's main source of information about mental illness comes from their previous job working in a physician's office where they treated various illnesses. 3. News reports of violence can perpetuate stigma, but the real issue is lack of access to needed help and support for those struggling with mental health conditions. Common conditions are often misunderstood.

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    Misconceptions About Mental Illness Everyone Should Abandon

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    1. When you hear that someone has a mental illness, what comes to mind?

    Do not be
    “politically correct”—be honest about your perceptions. How do they look? How do they act?
    Are they scary?
          I can understand that for others mental health can be a challenge. A challenge for the
    person who is mentally ill and for those people living around them because a person who has
    mental health disorder needs help, needs proper love and care and most of all patients and
    understanding. There is something in them, that they do not really understand nor explain.
    They are mentally struggling to come up with right decisions and right actions towards to
    certain things. But when I hear that someone has mental illness, I look at them no different
    way than I look at any other person. Just because someone has a mental illness does not mean
    that they are different. People with mental illness require more attention than any other
    person around us , they are just human beings who have a harder time developing and doing
    the normal day to day stuff that a normal human being is capable of doing . They of course
    act differently around people because of their conditions. I will never consider them to be
    scary because I see them all as normal human beings.
    2. Where do you get most of your information about people with mental illness?
          I get most of my information about people with mental illness from my previous job, this
    is because I worked for a primary care physician's office and used to see and treat all kinds of
    illness.
    3. Are you affected by articles you read in the newspapers or see on the news? What
    misconceptions about mental illness exist?
          Around the world there are a lot of misconceptions of people with mental illness just
    because people around us have little to no knowledge about the different kind of illness
    around the world. When I see that someone was murdered by the hands of a mentally ill
    person, I think that it's a shame that the person didn’t have or get the help they needed. Didn’t
    anybody see any signs that something was wrong with that person.
      According to R. Parmer, Some misconceptions about mental illness are:
     People can recover from depression or anxiety disorders with prescription drugs alone.
     Those struggling with mental illness can simply pull themselves out of it.
     Those who are mentally ill can't hold down a job or properly take care of themselves and
    their families.
     Children don't experience mental illness.
     People with mental health problems are typically violent and unpredictable

    4. Do you know anyone with a mental illness?


          I have a cousin with Down Syndrome, and he is a very loving and smart kid. We do not
    treat him any different from the rest of the kids.
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    Reference:  Parmer, R. (2016). Common Misconceptions about Mental Illness everyone
    should Abandon. Retrieved from: http://www.lifehack.org/349557/common-
    misconceptions-about-mental-illness-everyone-should-abandon

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