Social rejection towards mentally ill people in Hungary between 2001 and 2015: Has there been any change?

Annually, up to one-third of Europeans suffer from at least one mental disorder meaning that approximately 164.8 million people in Europe are affected by mental illnesses (Wittchen et al., 2011). In addition to their symptoms, people diagnosed as being mental ill must cope with the stigma surrounding these disorders (Caldwell and Jorm, 2000; Gureje et al., 2005; Jorm et al., 1997; Link et al., 1999). They often perceived as strange, frightening, unpredictable, aggressive, lacking self-control, violent and dangerous (Crisp et al., 2000; Link et al., 1999; Phelan and Link, 1998).

Source: Psychiatry Research - May 23, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tzipi Buchman-Wildbaum, Borb ála Paksi, Edit Sebestyén, Bernadette Kun, Katalin Felvinczi, Ágoston Schmelowszky, Mark.D. Griffiths, Zsolt Demetrovics, Róbert Urbán Source Type: research