Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me by Anna Mehler Paperny

Author:Anna Mehler Paperny
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Published: 2019-08-05T16:00:00+00:00

PART III

A KICK IN THE TEETH

18

Stigma and Related Bullshit

I am so beyond tired of the word “stigma.” Perhaps it once had resonance. Maybe its utterance once conjured a concrete, clearly delineated concept. But repetition has rendered it meaningless, the way a surfeit of swearing robs cuss words of their sting. “Stigma” came up in every interview I did for this book—with clinicians, with researchers, with people grappling with depression and suicide and with their family members. But its ubiquity in discourse lets us elide the agonizing crappiness it describes.

So let’s be really, really clear about what persistent stigma means for people with severe mental illness.

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