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Thread #75036   Message #1312969
Posted By: freda underhill
01-Nov-04 - 08:19 AM
Thread Name: BS: Is Religion a form of Mental Illness ???
Subject: RE: BS: Is Religion a form of Mental Illness ???
that comment gives a double stigma, to both mental illness and religion.

Mental illnesses can affect persons of any age, race, religion, or income.They can affect athiests.

Stigma prevents people from getting treatment.

I think the more dangerous illness is ignorance - a deliberate choice of lack of responsibility, lack of awareness, and the ignorant are the pawns of the powerful.