Four years on from Len's suicide, it's still as clear to me now as it was then that eliminating the stigma of mental illness saves lives. 1/
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That doesn't mean language policing, and it absolutely doesn't mean treating swaths of people with the same diagnosis as interchangeable. 2/
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It means listening to people who are having a hard time, and meeting them where they're at, most importantly as the individuals they are. 3/
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Of course this is difficult. If it were easy, everyone would be able to do it without even thinking about it. 4/
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It might make things easier to think of a pathology as "something that rises to the level of interfering negatively with one's life." 5/
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.