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That's A bit of an exaggeration. My wife is a mental health professional in Japan. She tells me that about half the people in the general population she speaks
by lovemenot 10y ago
That's A bit of an exaggeration. My wife is a mental health professional in Japan. She tells me that about half the people in the general population she speaks to find the topic challenging. Others are fine. Her hospital is not at all hidden away.
- intopieces 10y agoHere's a study from 2013 on the topic. "Review of mental-health-related stigma in Japan" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pcn.12086/abstract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pcn.12086/abstrac.... Japan has a long way to go toward accepting mental illness as anything but a character flaw.