{"id":2319,"date":"2008-05-13T16:02:22","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T16:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/05\/13\/stigma-and-mental-illness\/"},"modified":"2008-05-13T16:02:22","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T16:02:22","slug":"stigma-and-mental-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/13\/stigma-and-mental-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Stigma and Mental Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an interesting and important follow up related to a TED Talk that a lot of readers of this blog found interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/11\/sherwin_nuland_a_history_of_el.php\">(Sherwin Nuland: A history of electroshock therapy)<\/a> at The Corpus Callosum:<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/corpuscallosum\/2008\/05\/grappling_with_stigma_influenc.php\"><strong>Grappling With Stigma: Influence of Social Media<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A while back, Gred Laden and Dr. Shock independently linked to a remarkable video.  In it, a famous author-surgeon-professor reveals that he had had an episode of severe depression.  Moreover, he underwent treatment with electroconvulsive therapy.  It worked, he got back to work, and went on to have a distinguished career.  The video can be seen here &#8212; Sherwin Nuland: My history of electroshock therapy.His point, I suspect, was really to help destigmatize mental illness.  &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an interesting and important follow up related to a TED Talk that a lot of readers of this blog found interesting (Sherwin Nuland: A history of electroshock therapy) at The Corpus Callosum:Grappling With Stigma: Influence of Social Media A while back, Gred Laden and Dr. Shock independently linked to a remarkable video. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/13\/stigma-and-mental-illness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stigma and Mental Illness<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[209],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-Bp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}