According to the World Health Organization's 2001 World
Health Report, mental illness accounts for 12.3 percent of
the global burden of disease.
Actually when I think of mentally ill patients, the first
impression that jumps into my mind is stigma, and that this
stigma is not only to the patient, but to his/her whole
family. Mental ill patients are usually hidden from others
and deprived of nearly all their rights.
Some NGOs adopted the concept to help those patients, but
do you think their help is enough?
Can we count only on the NGOs to act against stigmatization
of the mental ill patients, and the people has nothing to
do with it?
It's all about changing cultures and traditions, people
should reconsider their way of dealing with mental ill
patients and ask themselves directly if they treat these
patients in an offensive way or not.
But even if some people can really change their tradition,
can they accept mental ill patients to join the main stream
of the society as normal citizens and moreover to give them
the chance to prove that they have something to add?
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