Kay Jamison discusses that although there is a stigma associated with psychiatric disorders, people's attitudes have begun to change for the better.

There is a huge stigma attached to psychiatric disorders; it’s changing and I think it’s changing relatively rapidly. Certainly for disorders like depression the attitudes I think of people have changed a lot because treatment is available. People are a lot more aware that these are common illnesses; people are much more willing to talk about them, there is less discrimination. With the illnesses like bipolar illness and with schizophrenia there is still a lot of stigma attached, sometimes because it’s an unpredictable illness, sometimes it’s because it’s frightening to people to be around. A lot of it is just a lack of education and lack of awareness that these are treatable disorders.

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