“People with mental health issues need to be addressed as individuals, not labels.”

This is a comment by J P McMahon on the post “The Politically Correct Way to Refer To Individuals Living With a Mental Illness“.

“[...] I don’t see there being a ‘mental health’ community any more than there is a cancer community, or shingles community, or paraplegic community. As you say yourself in the article, ‘People have the disease but they aren’t the disease.’ People with these issues need to be addressed as individuals, with compassion and not labels.” 

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