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Oh snap!
Being a d@#k about people struggling with mental illness is what fuels the stigma. You no doubt have someone in your family struggling and you don't know about it because of that stigma. People need to stop being @$$holes about people struggling with mental health issues. You're not better than them just because you ridicule them. You're just showing that you're an @$$hole.
#25 was to show the many abuses of the patients who were sent to those places back then for practically any reason. Families would make up excuses to dispose of unwanted members. Abuse of the mentally ill stretches all the way back to Bedlam and beyond. You sound like a blabbering first year psych student who probably only sought the courses out due to your very own experiences in treatment and therapy. It is extremely common and so is the Dunning-Kruger effect.