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KOSHISH Bi-Monthly Newsletter Feb-Mar, 2013

Why not mental illness but psychosocial disability

The word mental illness itself stigmatized, taken as a disease which is not curable. All the feeling is feeling of human being no more craziness exists. We every human being are living in sorrows, pain, joys, it is natural things. It is natural sometimes; we are in low mode and up mode. But in human life sometimes mental distress can be very low mode for long time as well as for in up mode. During these times, we may need professional supports. But, it is not in that it is a disease that incurable. But, there are superstitions, myths and discriminatory practice, customs and laws which is lead to bad emotional distress to psychosocial wellbeing of person who was tagged as mental illness, thus according to Convention on the Rights of Person with Disabilities has mainstreaming of psychosocial disability into momentum of cross disability.

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Source: KOSHISH Bi-Monthly Newslette
When: 12/5/2013