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Life and disability insurancesometimes penalize women, charging them more money, excluding mental illness from coverage or declining to cover them at all.

Letter to the editor byNAMI's president respondsto "When the Hospital Fires a Bullet" (linked). We should not tolerate Tasers and bullets aimed at people experiencing mental health emergencies in hospitals.

Stigmatizing words, stereotypes and portrayals end up helping to shape society’s attitudes around mental illness. You can’t say it’s harmless, because it isn’t.

Co-authored bty NAMI's medical director, the study is the first to examine the stigma of mental illness on social media. weets were compared with those for diabetes. Thirty-three percent were negativer; twice the rate for diabetes.

In addition to children who attend schools on military bases, there are 1 to 1.3 million kids enrolled in public schools whose parents are active-duty military, reserve or veterans, but most principals and teachers aren’t aware if children come from military families.

Sometimes a double stigma exists. While society is more accepting of the LGBTQ community, LGBT people mayface both a stigmafrom identifying with a certain sexual orientationanda stmaof having a mental health condition.

NAMI has endorsed S.2002 introduced by Senator John Cornyn.

Living with depression andaxiety disorder, the author finally acceptedthat her conditions arereal illnesses and notflaws and her fault–and thatrecovery was possible and theydidn’t have to end with suicide. Those truths helped her find compassion for her dad.

Besides itsstigmatizing,harshness as a word, is schizophrenia even an appropriate term for diagnosis?

Fo the first time, scientists have identified a molecular process in the brain that helps to trigger schizophrenia. It might ultimately lead to early detection and new treatments.