Social Work Professor King Davis offers a historical perspective on the publicly held assumption that mental illness is always linked with violence.
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As a consumer and a previous and future provider within the medical field, the public is too quick to link mental illness with negative aspects of the disease. The community stigma is perputated and self enforced within the client, by having the local Tx. MHMRs push sterotypes of lowered expectations, of behavior, employment, and education, onto its clients out of habit. The small town within Tx. at present is not ready nor willing to change its viewpoints, and is fully capable of using intrusive harrasment to provoke responces from clients they feel, upsets the status quo reflecting sterotypes. When are we going to hear from this University about the other consumers, the ones in the professional fields, the technical fields, etc.?
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