“For me, OCD came with a lot of stress. I stopped going to school entirely.”
“Stigma is the fear of being different … I’ve experienced it on a number of levels. I’ve been referred to as ‘one of those people a number of times.”
“If a teacher were able to spot someone with an anxiety disorder, being knowledgeable about that disorder would be extremely helpful.”
“Community leaders and first responders have justified promotion of these horrifying images as a way to increase public awareness. They hope they will help prevent people from using opioids or encourage others to seek treatment, including the person whose medical condition is being publicized without their consent.” But “decades of research and expert opinion conclude that scare tactics do not work.”
There are nearly 35 million people in the United States who are 65 years or older. What’s alarming is that substance abuse among those 60 years and older (including those who misuse prescription drugs) currently affects about 17 percent of this population – that’s a whopping six million people.
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“According to the 36-year-old director, who was diagnosed with the condition in his 20s, films about manic-depression, while well-meaning, too often look at the disorder from the point of view of friends and family members, rather than through the eyes of those actually living with the illness. ‘It frustrates me,” says Dalio, “when the filmmaker isn’t aware of how displaying them in this way — from the outside — might affect the way in which the public sees them. That is to say, very easily, in a negative light.’”
