Reply to "Good and Bad mental health programs"

Thanks Peter for your comment (& Corinna for getting dialogue it started.) I tend to agree w/ Corinna's argument & disagree w/ Peter's bottom line; that "fewer people will turn a blind eye to someone in need of mental health first aid" Studies indicate that when we dispense w/ the label (and corresponding baggage of diseased brains) - people are more empathetic & compassionate responding to distress, suffering, painful things have happened in others lives (like they do in our own.) Medicalizing misery & disease-ifying distress don't result in less stigma.

1/7/1710:35 AM

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