For everyone (which is almost everyone) who doesn't know why "the mentally ill" have such terrible lives.

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Negative attitudes and behaviours

People with lived experience of a mental illness commonly report feeling devalued, dismissed, and dehumanized by many of the health professionals with whom they come into contact.^15–21 Key themes include feeling excluded from decisions, receiving subtle or overt threats of coercive treatment, being made to wait excessively long when seeking help, being given insufficient information about one’s condition or treatment options, being treated in a paternalistic or demeaning manner, being told they would never get well, and being spoken to or about using stigmatizing language.^15–21 While research also highlights many positive patient experiences (eg, Clark et al.¹⁹ Barney et al.²⁰ and Connor et al.²¹), the pervasiveness with which negative interactions are reported suggests the problem is not isolated to a few insensitive providers but is more systemic in nature—that it is a problem with how healthcare culture prioritizes and perceives persons with mental illnesses.^1,4–7

Article:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5347358/