People with major mental distress often suffer multiple personal,
social and economic losses. Our personal loss of power and self-esteem does not so
much derive from the condition itself, but the attitudes we and others have
towards it. We may feel shame. Those around us may feel pity and fear. Our paid
helpers often reinforce these responses by pathologising our experience. Once our
personal losses have taken hold, a cascade of social and economic losses tends
to follow, such as isolation, u...
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