"Beating the Stigma of Psychosis" Presented by Dr. Patrick Corrigan
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The stigma of “mental illness” can be as big a barrier to the achievement of an individual’s goals as the symptoms and potential disabilities associated with psychosis. This presentation will distinguish harm wrought by public versus self stigma. Dr. Corrigan will review the research on outcomes of stigma intervention, perhaps surprisingly showing the limitations of education, and instead resting on the efficacy of contact-based experiences.
About the presenter:
Patrick Corrigan is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Prior to that, Corrigan was Professor of Psychiatry and Executive Director of the University of Chicago Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation.
Corrigan has worked most of his 30-year career in providing and evaluating services for people with psychiatric disabilities with a special focus on the impact of health equity. Realizing that the benefits of psychiatric services are limited by stigma, he has spent the past two decades broadening his research to the prejudice and discrimination of mental illness. His work has been supported by NIH and PCORI for most of that time to, among other things, develop and lead the National Consortium on Stigma and Empowerment (www.NCSE1.org). This led to the development of the Honest, Open, Proud program to erase the stigma of mental illness (www.honestopenproudprogram.org).
Corrigan also extended his research to mental health AND social determinants (e.g., ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, and age) and corresponding social disadvantage related to poverty, criminal justice involvement, and immigration concerns resulting in the Chicago Health Disparities Center (www.chicagoheatlhdisparities.org).
Corrigan has authored more than 450 journal articles and 20 books. He is also editor of Stigma and Health, an APA journal.
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I have bipolar 1 with psychotic features and I really appreciate the time and effort that is clearly being applied into fighting for us, so thank you for all that you are doing. I've had people that knew my personality already literally take a physical step back from me when I've opened up to them about my struggle with particularly manic and positive psychotic symptoms, even when nothing has changed and I'm telling them while I'm currently stable. It's almost like the scary sounding "buzzwords" only come through for some people and the context is ignored entirely. They only hear me say words hallucination, delusion, mania, paranoia, psychosis, etc... because many forms of media and casual language use various forms of those words routinely to describe someone who is evil or violent. There is no valid reason why the words maniac and psychotic mean violence in any setting. I've experienced severe manic and psychotic episodes before and I never once had a desire to be violent towards anyone in any way. When I'm in mania, I just want to write music, make art, and work on projects or studies for my harmless hobbies. When I'm in psychosis I am really scared of everyone else because I think that everyone is actively trying to get dirt on me or wants to do or say something hurtful to or about me. In psychosis, I tend to just isolate in my house because I'm scared and also really sad because I fully believe that everyone hates me including my loved ones. I have never even thought of disrespecting or harming someone in any way, so its very hurtful when people that liked and show me respect before, will instantly switch and view everything that I say as less valid than everyone else or even themselves. Even when its about my own illness. We need more videos and people out there like this, thank you so much for spreading this!
@makennabolen5692
8 ай бұрын
I’m bipolar 1 with psychotic features too and it was nice seeing your comment, because it made me feel less alone. Even though paranoia, delusions, and mania are so deeply misunderstood by people who don’t directly experience it because of the way the media portrays us, I’m glad there are people within the psychiatric sphere trying to educate and fight for us.
Psychosis can happen to anyone at any time. It is a response to distress. It is not illness. See Dialogue Cures for Psychotic Problems with Jaakko Seikkula.
@ahdhwjdue8362
Ай бұрын
It's a stupid response to stress Oh there's a pack of wolves there, I'm stressed *gets psycosis* I'm king of the wolves! *walks up to them* *gets eaten* I'm surprised humanity made it this far with such a weakness, you think natural selection would've gotten rid of such a useless response.