I can’t emphasize enough that this survey was not validated and the data collection was not scientifically rigorous; it was my personal social media experiment. Still, I believe the responses show that when people are lumped together in the "mentally ill" category for the purposes of discussion, there should not be the assumption that everyone is speaking about the same individuals. Perhaps it is time to change some of the discussions.
Dr. Miller is a coauthor of "Shrink Rap: Three Psychiatrists Explain Their Work" (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011).