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What Is Stigma? What Are the Consequences for Mental Patients

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What is stigma? What are the consequences for mental patients?


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Thorazine

A medication primarily used to treat psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, acting as an antipsychotic by blocking dopamine receptors in the brain.

Lithium

A chemical element used as a medication to treat mood disorders such as bipolar disorder by stabilizing mood and reducing extremes in behavior.

Eye Movement Desensitization

A component of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), a therapeutic technique for reducing the impact of traumatic memories.

Therapeutically Effective

Describes a treatment or intervention that produces a beneficial outcome in the healing of disease or relief of symptoms.

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