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    Explaining the effects of the popularisation of psychological diagnoses on the perceived clinical significance of mental illness: a quantitative study using questionnaires
    (The IIE, 2020) Fuller, Jared
    Mental health stigma is an everchanging theme because the sources of information that people can learn about mental illness from is ever-expanding. This is especially true for tertiary students who have learned popularised and overly-simplified versions of mental disorders from social media. The majority of the student’s use of popularised sources as the basis of their semantic memory (Social media at 68.8%, Figure 2) and colloquial use of psychodiagnostic terms through metaphors (where 84.4% admitted to using OCD in a colloquial manner, Figure 1) has resulted in a mediocre ability to recall and identify the correct symptomology for three relatively well known mental illnesses (OCD, MDD and BAD). This means that the popularised sources of knowledge have created a deficit between the academic understanding of mental illness and the publics’ understanding of the mental illness (Calsamiglia, 2003)