From Professor Dauber's Twitter:
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Both the things that Professor Dauber is saying and the things that are being said about her are stigmatizing, mental health discrimination.
It's a good example of the way that people have so little awareness of mental health and medication stigma that even educated people, even people who have studied law, throw around language like this without any concern that it could be perceived as discriminatory. Nobody other than me is picking up on this, correct? That's because there is no awareness about this issue.
A person who is targeted for discriminatory language about mental health does not have to have a mental disorder for the language to be discriminatory.
Also, Professor Dauber is known to despise President Trump. For that reason, even if her repeated Tweets about his being incapacitated by a medication were not discriminatory, they would not be credible. The same principle applies to the people who are now disparaging her mental health.
People who have never been made vulnerable to abuse because of mental health stigma don't think about mental health discrimination as being a problem, because it has never been a problem for them.
I couldn't care less that Professor Dauber is gathering doctors to try to support her discriminatory attacks. Psychiatry, and the medical establishment in general, have reliance on stigma built in to how they treat their own patients. Black people are saying as much about what they experience. Nobody's asking what mental health patients experience, because our experience is automatically dismissed as being invalid.
You have the right to hate anyone whom you want to hate, for any reason. I'm letting you know that your endless Tweeting about President Trump's mental functioning is discriminatory and sets a bad example for political discussion. You can hardly expect that other people won't respond to you the same way, while nobody thinks about the damage it causes when these attacks are treated as legitimate criticism instead of discriminatory language motivated by personal hatred.
From Google for "mentally ill 10x more vulnerable to abuse":
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https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/807387
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Maybe nobody has ever hurt you or tried to hurt you and not only gotten away with it because everyone knows that you have a psychiatric history and everyone disbelieves you but gloated while you try to avoid being carted off to the mental hospital or otherwise admonished or threatened for talking about it. If not, you're fortunate; I have almost forgotten what my life was like before every day was that experience.
