Why the Mental Health Stigma Isn’t Ending Anytime Soon

It’s nothing personal, you’re just different

Thomas of Copenhagen

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The day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, a school teacher named Jane Elliott conducted a social experiment on her third-grade class to teach them about discrimination. This experiment, which is now famously known as the “Blue eyes/Brown eyes” exercise, began with her telling her…

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Thomas of Copenhagen

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