““Mental illness is often used as a rationale or label placed on hate crimes. In fact, it rarely is connected to one’s mental state, but instead, through hatred and other prejudicial mores established in early childhood.””
2013
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Preface to the First Edition.
The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct (1961)
Source: The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

On avoiding perpetuating stereotypes about mental illness in “Esmé Weijun Wang: ‘I don’t want to glamorise mental illness… it inhibits creativity’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/29/esme-weijun-wang-interview-the-collected-schizophrenias in The Guardian (2019 Jun29)
Introduction text.
A History of Great Ideas in Abnormal Psychology, (1990)
“Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.”

“Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.”