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Silence in Mood Disorders

We tend to assume that silence in and around mental illness is harmful and socially imposed. It is an assumption drilled into us by countless mental health campaigns and reams of scholarship warning that people are "suffering in silence" and urging us to "break the silence." There are of course good reasons for this.

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We tend to assume that silence in and around mental illness is harmful and socially imposed.

It is an assumption drilled into us by countless mental health campaigns and reams of scholarship warning that people are "suffering in silence" and urging us to "break the silence." There are of course...

Stigma […] The post Silence in Mood Disorders first appeared on Blog of the APA.

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We tend to assume that silence in and around mental illness is harmful and socially imposed. It is an assumption drilled into us by countless mental health campaigns and reams of scholarship warning that people are "suffering in silence" and urging us to "break the silence." There are of course good reasons for this. Stigma […] The post Silence in Mood Disorders first appeared on Blog of the APA.

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