Should mental disability be treated differently from physical disability?

Question

What do you think of the stigma against people with mental illness? Visit my 360 and tell your friends to answer this question! Thanks.

Answer 1

NOPE both have obsitcles and need help they should be treated the same as everyone else

Answer 2

Disabilities have to be taken individually, since every one is different. Unfortunately, mental disabilities sometimes are looked on as a personal failure or something, which is ridiculous but happens. Treatment for disabilities, physical or mental or both, should be given where possible to improve life for the people involved.

Answer 3

yes i had to be treated different one is mental and the other is physical. here is an example some mentally disable people can't used a motorize wheelchair or a regular wheelchair because they don't have the mental capability to do so.
Physical disability such as mine ( i can't walk ) I drive my car, I have a motorize wheelchair and I can used my crutches a bit. all my problems are physical such as i can't pick heavy things, move furniture, change the oil in my car, jump, run. and what I can do it takes longer the it would take the normal person except for actual driving, getting in the takes me longer.

Answer 4

Yes they should be treated differently because they are two totally different afflictions.

People are always going to be afraid of mental illness and that is partially to do with the media. Whenever you hear of mental illness, it is always in a negative light. Women who go crazy and kill their children and schizophrenics who go "postal" in their neighbors are just some examples. But then again, is their really a positive light to mental illness?

Plus the only exposure most of us have with mental illness is seeing someone in the street with 7 layers of clothes on in the middle of July cussing out some light post. Come on, wouldn't you be afraid too. No matter what kind of education we give the public, that is what they see and we are going to continue to be afraid.

Answer 5

I think it is ignorance and fear. We now know mental disabilities are chemically based just like physical disabilities. A lot of the homeless are mentally ill. When the government de-institutionalized these people they didn't think about housing. It is a crime.

Answer 6

Yes, on account of their bing different, and their sufferers having different capabilities.

A physically disabled person, for instance, might still be very clever and sociable, whereas a mentally disabled person is unlikely to be.

Answer 7

well a disability is a disability to me... but mental disability affects the physical appearence thus being frowed at by those who choose to look at beauty, and then physical disability affects the mentality of that person, causeing break downs and possible suicide because they dont match those around them or they cant funtion their daily lives normally.

Answer 8

Any disability needs to be treated for wellness. Why differentiate?

Answer 9

The stigma is ignorance in action.

The ADA should apply as should non-discrimination laws.

Answer 10

Well, treatment should be different. Stigma comes from fear. Attitudes should be the same. compassion, tolerance, sympathy, optimism, understanding. Humanity. "There but for the grace of God" works for me.