mental illness shaming

[Roy Rolling]

18. Advocating for years

I have been working for years to change this medically-misnamed condition. There is no organ or part of the body called "mental." It hints that this family of diseases is a choice and curing the diseases is simply as easy as willfully changing one's mind. That is not the case.

I have promoted using the term "brain disease"to assign a name to the family of diseases they have misnamed "mental illness". Please, those on DU, be at the forefront of this evolutionary change in redirecting the course of treatment and public attitudes toward this sometimes totally-incapacitating family of brain disorders.