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Top 10 Biggest Misconceptions About Mental Illness and Disorders

Created by Ashley Murphy Staff · May 2024 · Updated Jun 2025

Top 10 Biggest Misconceptions About Mental Illness and Disorders: 22 items ranked by popular vote. Browse more in Health.

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You have to get over it

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People with depression and/or those who commit suicide are weak

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Everyone gets depressed

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All psychopaths or sociopaths become killers

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Mental illness is cool

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Mental Illness is untreatable

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Autistic people are retarded

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Mentally ill people are crazy violent psychos

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Antisocial is the same as asocial

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Mental illness has correlation with intelligence

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People who are mentally ill are just attention-seeking

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There is a cure to Autism and/or other mental illnesses

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People with mental disorders are evil

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All bullies are autistic

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You only have Tourette'™s if you curse

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Eating disorders are a choice

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Manic episodes are fun

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People with mental illness stab people

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People with ADHD can't listen

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The mentally ill are nasty

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Social Anxiety is just shyness

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People with OCD are germaphobes and clean freaks

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Created: May 15, 2024
Updated: June 2025
Items: 22
Topic: Health

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