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Yes there are groups that are discriminated against more than others, internationally every culture has It's "targeted", or underrepresented groups that are treated unpreferentailly and have very little influence within their society.

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Personally I do not believe that everyone will ever be treated equally. Us humans are too easily influenced ny societal and cultural views and values, so as long as discrimination exists there will always be someone to carry the torch.

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I don't think there will ever come a time when everyone will be equal in gender or race. No matter how many laws are put in to place or enforced it just won't happen. People choose to believe they are better then one and other. I believe there should be equality and I try to show that in my everyday life. People go by what they were taught then there own opinions.

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I think there is groups who get discriminated against. The act of racism seems to be increasing. People think just because they are a different color then you means your better then them and that's just not true. Just as many white people do crimes as black we just don't hear about it as much. We choice what to see and hear.

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In my honest opinion nobody will ever be treated equally. There will always be one person who doesn't get along with a certain person, and create issues. Even if we wanted to create a perfect world, isn't our form of entertainment a from of competition such as sports and types of dramas and what about fights? Nobody just walks away when there's a school fight, in fact people try to get closer to get a better view. Even in a perfect world someone would still end up messing up and getting judged by it, I truly would love to tell you the answer is yes eveyone can be treated equally if we try hard enough, but in reality someone may say something honest and the other person may take it the wrong way

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There will never be a time where everyone is judged equally. Even if we got to the point that anything that came out of our mouths was completely positive, our minds would still sway negative occasionally. We have those people that always try hard to not judge one another and to only think positive but everybody slips up. And that's okay.

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I do not believe there will ever be equality, even though I believe there should be. People in our society today will always judge and put themselves above others. I don't believe any type of written law will ever eliminate that.

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I feel that us as human beings and as a nationwill never treat each other equally, I mean look at how long it been now, over thousands of years has gone by and it is still happening.

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I don't think it is possible that everyone would be treated equally because no matter what there is going to be at least one person who doesn't agree. Unfortunately that is just how people are made and as much as we want to say that it could be possible it just isn't. There isn't a single person in the world who treats everyone the same either. Everyone is treated differently because everyone is different.

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There will never be true equality in the world. Even people who do not discriminate against others automatically form opinions about people based on looks and/or behavior. This is an evolutionary behavior that helps us distinguish between friendly people and enemies. Unfortunately this carries over into our social interactions and in situations that aren't even potentially dangerous. If we did not prejudge people at all, then we would be easy targets for crime and injustice. The tragic truth is that we will always have at least a little bit of prejudice towards strangers. The best solution is to not act on those prejudices unless you fear that harm will be done to you. Even in that case the solution is avoidance rather than discrimination.

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Will everyone one ever be treated equally or will the world always be judgemental and cruel?

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Are there groups of people that are stigmatized and discriminated against more than the others?

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I like the metaphor illustrated by your picture. I've always thought that your environment contibutes to depression. However ypur post has given me some more insight on other possibilities.

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"1 in 4 people, like me, have a Mental Health problem. Many more have a problem with that."- Steven Fry

I chose this quote because he says that 25% people have a mental health problem and that's already a big statistic but even more people have issues with that. That's just like not liking someone because they think different than you... Why hasn't society realized that's almost as bad as having a problem with someone because they look different

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This picture shows how that mental illnesses are still debilitating and harmful to the person even if it's not physical. Even then most mental illnesses are a combination of environmental and biological factors. Some depend more on biological factors like depression goes hand in hand with the neurotransmitter serotonin. We don't know the causes for all mental health problems

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If you're wondering how much work is still left to do in dissipating stigma around mental illness, look no further than recent comments made by Chamali Fernando, the Tory parliamentary candidate for Cambridge.

When asked at hustings how authorities, such as the police, could better help those with mental health requirements, Fernando apparently suggested that vulnerable people could wear colour-coded wristbands denoting their condition, immediately alerting public figures to any special needs they might have.

When this statement hit Twitter, it was immediately seized upon and ridiculed by opponents, and with good reason: the last thing sufferers of any form of ill-health want is to make everyone they meet aware of their condition. It's hard enough when Katie Hopkins is calling your debilitating mental illness " a passport to self obsession" without hanging a sign around your neck declaring: "I AM MEDICALLY SAD, PLEASE BEAR THIS IN MIND WHEN DEALING WITH ME." Fernando's main competition for the seat, incumbent Lib Dem MP Julian Huppert, wasted no time in making political capital from the comments, pointing out - correctly - that singling mentally ill people out with wristbands would only exacerbate the continual stigma that surrounds mental health issues.

As naive and misguided as Fernando's suggestion is, you can understand where it came from. In many ways she is a victim of the stigma too. As a barrister, she will have seen many examples of a person's mental health compromising the way they are treated by the system, and those in the legal profession may often feel unprepared to deal with such cases. Her reaction was kneejerk and poorly thought through, but the fact behind it is a valid one. We are failing mentally ill people in this country because we are not educated enough about their conditions

Were Fernando running for parliament in a utopia of universal understanding, her suggestion would arguably have some merit: thanks to their helpful taste in accessories we would know if someone was ill, and adjust our behaviour to help them, taking their problem into account but not judging them for it. Sadly we do not yet live in such a society. The stigma behind mental health problems may be a trope of its coverage in the media, yet despite some claims to the contrary that stigma has gone nowhere. A study done earlier this year by the Equality Challenge Unit, which promotes diversity in higher education, found that 38% of university staff interviewed were afraid to disclose a mental health problem, fearing they would be treated differently as a result. In October 2014 a separate study found that 40% of people from a cross-section of industries had experienced mental health problems, more than half of those surveyed said they thought that if they were open about their issues it would damage their career prospects. While such attitudes are still predominant, no one wants their condition broadcast for all to see.

In an era when instant Twitter storms are formed off the back of a single headline, and putting the boot in to inept would-be politicians is something of a national pastime, it's easy to be scornful about Fernando's idea. It is, after all, a rather silly plan, completely unthought out and containing holes large enough to drive a truck through. There's more going on here than an over-keen candidate spit-balling unhelpful ideas though. That Fernando feels such measures are required at all shows us just how far we have to go. Her solution is intended as a quick-fix, and that is why it would never work: The stigma of mental illness is never going to be broken by bracelets, but by a long road of education, understanding and changing ideals.
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Wristbands for mentally ill people is a silly, but sadly revealing, idea | Marc Burrows

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If you're wondering how much work is still left to do in dissipating stigma around mental illness, look no further than recent comments made by Chamali Fernando, the Tory parliamentary candidate for Cambridge.

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The woman in this article is speaking about multiple times when she went to the doctor and the doctors and they didn't give her proper treatment just because she was on drugs for bipolar disorder. that's why whenever people with mental illnesses barely ever go to the hospital/doctor to seek treatment

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I never knew it until I started poking around, but this particular kind of discriminatory doctoring has a name. It's called "diagnostic overshadowing."

According to a review of studies done by the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College, London, it happens a lot. As a result, people with a serious mental illness - including bipolar disorder, major depression, schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder - end up with wrong diagnoses and are under-treated.

That is a problem, because if you are given one of these diagnoses you probably also suffer from one or more chronic physical conditions: though no one quite knows why, migraines, irritable bowel syndrome and mitral valve prolapse often go hand in hand with bipolar disorder.

Less mysterious is the weight gain associated with most of the drugs used to treat bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, which can easily snowball into diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and cardiovascular disease. The drugs can also sedate you into a state of zombiedom, which can make going to the gym - or even getting off your couch - virtually impossible.

It's little wonder that many people with a serious mental illness don't seek medical attention when they need it. As a result, many of us end up in emergency rooms - where doctors, confronted with an endless stream of drug addicts who come to their door looking for an easy fix - are often all too willing to equate mental illness with drug-seeking behavior and refuse to prescribe pain medication.

I should know: a few years ago I had a persistent migraine, and after weeks trying to get an appointment with any of the handful of headache specialists in New York City, I broke down and went to the E.R. My husband filled out paperwork and gave the nurse my list of drugs. The doctors finally agreed to give me something stronger than what my psychopharmacologist could prescribe for the pain and hooked me up to an IV.

I lay there for hours wearing sunglasses to block out the fluorescent light, waiting for the pain relievers to kick in. But the headache continued. "They gave you saline and electrolytes," my psychopharmacologist said later. "Welcome to being bipolar."

When I finally saw the specialist two weeks later (during which time my symptoms included numbness and muscle weakness), she accused me of being "a serious cocaine user" (I don't touch the stuff) and of displaying symptoms of "la belle indifference," a 19th-century term for a kind of hysteria in which the patient converts emotional symptoms into physical ones - i.e., it was all in my head.

Indeed, given my experience over the last two decades, I shouldn't have been surprised by the statistics I found in the exhaustive report " Morbidity and Mortality in People with Serious Mental Illness," a review of studies published in 2006 that provides an overview of recommendations and general call to arms by the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors. The take-away: people who suffer from a serious mental illness and use the public health care system die 25 years earlier than those without one.

True, suicide is a big factor, accounting for 30 to 40 percent of early deaths. But 60 percent die of preventable or treatable conditions. First on the list is, unsurprisingly, cardiovascular disease. Two studies showed that patients with both a mental illness and a cardiovascular condition received about half the number of follow-up interventions, like bypass surgery or cardiac catheterization, after having a heart attack than did the "normal" cardiac patients.

The report also contains a list of policy recommendations, including designating patients with serious mental illnesses as a high-priority population; coordinating and integrating mental and physical health care for such people; education for health care workers and patients; and a quality-improvement process that supports increased access to physical health care and ensures appropriate prevention, screening and treatment services.

Such changes, if implemented, might make a real difference. And after seven years of no change, signs of movement are popping up, particularly among academic programs aimed at increasing awareness of mental health issues. Several major medical schools now have programs in the medical humanities, an emerging field that draws on diverse disciplines including the visual arts, humanities, music and science to make medical students think differently about their patients. And Johns Hopkins offers a doctor of public health with a specialization in mental health.

Perhaps the most notable of these efforts - and so far the only one of its kind - is the narrative medicine program at Columbia University Medical Center, which starts with the premise that there is a disconnect between health care and patients and that health care workers need to start listening to what their patients are telling them, and not just looking at what's written on their charts.

According to the program's mission statement, "The effective practice of health care requires the ability to recognize, absorb, interpret, and act on the stories and plights of others. Medicine practiced with narrative competence is a model for humane and effective medical practice."

We can only hope that humanizing programs like this one become a requirement for all health care workers. Maybe then "first, do no harm" will apply to everyone, even the mentally ill.

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I never knew it until I started poking around, but this particular kind of discriminatory doctoring has a name. It's called "diagnostic overshadowing." According to a review of studies done by the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College, London, it happens a lot.

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I find your topic and research on mental health quite interesting and i have a question regarding mental health issues addressed in one of the articles you posted.

Q. why is it that mental health and physical health are related though one involves the human psyche and the other physiology?

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She argues that we shouldnt be treating it the same as a physical fitness and that it puts less blame on the patients. But still some of it is due to emviromental factors and emotionally traumatizing

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-In the article about debunking sterotypes about mental ill patients they dont include the people who fit that stereotype they just include the people who don fit it

- Well they dont include statistics they just use words like most and not all

- the organization that posted this article is an organization for change in the behavioral health system

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Stereotypes about People with Mental Illness | Scattergood Foundation

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STEREOTYPE: People with mental illness are dangerous and unpredictable. This is the most prevalent stereotype about people with mental health conditions. It is reinforced on a daily basis by popular media, including the news media. Several studies have found that news coverage of people with mental illness in the United States are far more likely to be about violence than news coverage in other countries.

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who: people with mental disorders

what:stigma(negative stereotyping) and discrimination of people with mental disorders can cause serious issues for those already with a mental illness

why: Because some people are not open minded about mental disorders and expect everyone to act according to the cultural norm

where: all over the world

when: as long as we can remember the "crazy" people were always outcasts of society

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