Mental Health discrimination is about 20 years behind all other forms of discrimination

My psychiatrist’s view is that my case is a classic one of mental health discrimination: he says that Mental Health discrimination is about 20 years behind all other forms of discrimination - race, sex, religious and possibly age.

As he rightly said, you rarely hear anyone these days say “nigger” or “wog” (the words make me cringe even to write them) yet you still hear people, including public figures, say “nutter” “loon” etc.

The ignorance about Bipolar and its manifestations is horrendous and so very, very painful for us sufferers.

The question is: how do we change it?

Please link to this site. I would plead that if you come across other sufferers of mental health problems that you ask them to link to this site so that we can eventually raise the profile of this kind of case.

Parents with Bipolar, depression, or other mood disorders need to club together so that we have a “voice” and are not just individuals. The louder our “voice” the more chance their will be of effecting a change.

Also, if anyone out there is reading this, PLEASE take the time to add a comment: this makes for more interactive debate, hence interest, hence more readership.

Linked from Bipolarised: http://bipolarised.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/astonishing-bipolar-fact-3/

Comments

[Jennifer Forbes]

I am with you 100% my friend.

-Jenn

[Graham Smith]

Hi Jenn
Just got round to taking a look at your own Blog. SO i have taken the liberty of adding you to 'our' new Blog, Blog Roll, about Child Custody, Mental Health Discrimnation yada yada yada.

http://www.bipolarised.wordpress.com

Seems that no matter how much I have tried to try and not let Bipolar influence my life too much, this happens and all of a sudden you are right back in the trenches.

But I think with this new Blog, rather than a totally personal Blog, the outcome and the desired result is a totally different. I feel enthused to really shake the system up now, and I feel we have a good chance to at least bring it to people's focus, aim is on a national level.

We'll see.

Thank you for your comments and support, it obviously goes without saying, but I will anyway, it is hugely appreciated.

Graham

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