What Is Mental Illness? Schizophrenia to Bipolar Psychology

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"What Is Mental Illness? Schizophrenia to Bipolar Psychology Psychiatry Mental health trauma

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"I had been diagnosed with schizophrenia when I learned that I was pregnant. When my mother told our neighbors that I was pregnant, they asked: ‘When is the abortion going to take place?’ That is stigma, a big stigma. My daughter is now six years old."

Mary

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