The fact is the label with the highest associations with murder, violence and crime is "men", and yet there is no prejudice nor systematic suppression of dangerous men except that which is implicit in psychiatry and its powers to prevent harm to another or a serious crime. It's bullshit and should be stopped because their powers will always be overused and abused.
It is the stigma of mental illness and the biomedical model's powers which allow for forced treatment or incarceration by doctors. It is the privilege of physicians which prevents and dissuades oversight or challenge. The media naively support the medical model and entrenched prejudice in society.
And, as usual, all this conspires to shit on the mentally ill like a sumo wrestler with diarrhea. Most mentally ill people are less violent or aggressive than the norm. They're more meek and humble and kind and any other positive attribute than the average but psychiatrists rarely study these aspects. Such is their inherent stigma to ignore the possibility of positive attributes to the mentally, just as men can also be associated with positive attributes but if people ignored this and only saw our risks then it would be fucking awful for men instead of just for the mentally ill.
The dearth of evidence of positive attributes of the mentally is caused by psychiatry's fundamental prejudice. The absence of positive evidence and a preponderance of negative evidence further fuels the public's tightly held prejudices.
This is an example of research bias caused by psychopathology principles which contributes to mental health prejudice in the public through the media. The media report on the information which reaches them and that's why the research bias causes stigma.
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