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Posted on June 13, 2008 - 7:20am at Stone Soup Station
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While perceptions about mental illness have changed significantly over the past couple of decades, there is still considerable stigmatization and ostracism associated with those who suffer from these illnesses.

I've noticed too that folks here in the South seem much more afraid to admit or accept a diagnosis of a mental illness, often arguing vehemently to the contrary: "I might be a ________(fill in the blank with any one of a million bad habits or problems) but I ain't crazy."