DIS-2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Deconstruction, Social Exclusion, Multiple Sclerosis
13 Nov 2018
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Mental health as a political movement for people with disabilities. Members of the communities join together throughout the globe to change attitudes and practices associated with mental health diversities. Banning conversion therapy: a process aimed at curing an incurable problem of identifying as lgbtq, still a process used in canada. Disability as a mental illness: these people need di erent requirements to successfully navigate through the world as compared to people with physical disabilities. Pushing for respectful terms: they have taken the word mad an attempted to change the negative focus to a positive one, changing peoples perspectives and harmful attitudes. When you are apart of a marginalized community, joining together provides an array of outcomes, like support and education which not only bene ts those inside the community but those outside. Politics separately from mental illness, is a large identity group for those with disabilities.
