Anything to do with mental illnesses/disorders
Article on our free will and why some people may be so dismissive of mental illnesses
The Illusion of Free Will and Mental Illness Stigma
The idea of free will, the illusion that our minds are free to wander, independent of the brain, is problematic for psychiatry. Libertarian free will is the notion that we are free to choose our thoughts and actions at any given moment; that we could have acted differently than we did in the past, because we as the conscious authors chose otherwise.
psychologytoday.com
Personally I found the change in the womans mood after finding out that she was dieing to be particularly interesting, that one could be so scared of having a mental illness.




A very interesting read. I'm a bit sceptical that this sort of thinking is solely due to our common understanding (or misunderstanding) of "free will". I suspect the stigma with mental illness to, in part, be due to experiences similar to those of people with an invisible disability or illness. i.e. that they tend to get a response "You don't look ill/disabled, so quit acting as if you are" and as a result that they might be afraid to bring it up out of fear of just being dismissed as being lazy/weak.
It reminds me a bit of what Tom Shakespeare writes in Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited. To paraphrase him, he writes that even if the social aspects of disability are solved, and people with a (physical) impairments are capable of participating in society, people would still stare. - I feel that ironically enough, it is this "staring" that might well help the issues of (visible) disabilities be taken seriously, unlike mental health issues or invisible disability.