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This solution provides suggestions to reduce stigmas associated with mental illness.

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One strategy that may be used to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness is to educate the general public about mental illness and the differing levels of mental illness that individuals may have. This methodology would inform the general public that those individuals with mental illness that are living in society have a lower level of mental illness that can be controlled with medication, and makes it possible for these individuals to be able to function effectively within society, and pose no danger to the general public. Another strategy that may be used to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness is to ensure that the ...

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