"The publication of new findings on the United States (US) public’s views on mental illness by Pescosolido, Manago and Monahan (2019) is a punch in the gut to those of us who make the reduction of mental illness-related stigma our life’s work. Findings indicate that, between 1996 and 2018, endorsement of the expectation that a hypothetical person meeting criteria for schizophrenia is likely to be dangerous has not decreased but increased, such that now nearly 70% of US residents expect the person to be dangerous. Parallel to this change has been an increase in support for the use of coercive methods such as involuntary hospitalization, even for a vignette of an individual with non-clinical “daily troubles.”
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