Event
Broadcast — Mini-Psych - Top Ten Myths About Mental Illness
Friday, January 21, 2011 14:00to15:00
Joseph Rochford, PhD, Director of Academic Affairs of the Research Centre, at the Douglas Institute, talks about some popular preconceived ideas about mental illness in this 2009 Mini-Psych school lecture, including that:
- Mental illness is a single, rare disorder
- The mentally ill are insane
- If you are diagnosed with a mental illness, kiss your chances of a brilliant career goodbye
- The mentally ill are more violent
- Mental illnesses are not true medical illnesses like heart disease and diabetes
- If mental illnesses are biological, then psychotherapy is useless
- If you have a gene that have been associated with a mental illness, you are condemned to experience it
- The mentally ill are weak or lazy
- People with a mental illness never get better