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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3c25e2c8-d1cd-4dbd-a96d-51544d64d694/2E511FAB-1909-4E77-946A-12A2C86DB39A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mental_disorder&oldid=212041862" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mental_disorder&oldid=212041862" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mental_disorder&oldid=212041862"><H2><SPAN class="editsection">[<A title="Edit section: Stigma of Mental Illness" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mental_disorder&action=edit§ion=13" linkindex="356">edit</A>]</SPAN> <SPAN class="mw-headline">Stigma of Mental Illness</SPAN></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mental_disorder&oldid=212041862">A large proportion of individuals who suffer from the symptoms of a mental illness will avoid seeking treatment for their symptoms because of the <A title="Social stigma" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_stigma" linkindex="357">social stigma</A>[<A rel="nofollow" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_stigma" class="external autonumber" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_stigma" linkindex="358">[2]</A>] associated with having a mental illness. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mental_disorder&oldid=212041862"><P>Powerful and pervasive, stigma prevents people from acknowledging their own mental health problems, much less disclosing them to others<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-51"><A title="" href="#cite_note-51" linkindex="359">[52]</A></SUP>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mental_disorder&oldid=212041862"> many people feel the need to keep their mental illness a secret, and will deny the symptoms that they are experiencing.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mental_disorder&oldid=212041862">prognoses of a mental illness can worsen the longer that a mental illness remains untreated. The added anxiety of fearing a mental illness diagnoses can also be detrimental to an individual's mental health, this effect can greatly exacerbate an anxiety disorder or mood disorder. Efforts are being undertaken worldwide to eliminate the stigma of mental illness <SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-53"><A title="" href="#cite_note-53" linkindex="361" set="yes">[54]</A></SUP>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mental_disorder&oldid=212041862">Two thirds of the people who would benefit from treatment for a mental illness do not receive treatmen</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2E511FAB-1909-4E77-946A-12A2C86DB39A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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