Mental illness denial

Not to be confused with the inability of a person to recognize personal defects, known as anosognosia.

Mental illness denial or mental disorder denial is a form of denialism in which a person or group denies the existence of mental disorders. Both serious analysts and pseudoscientific movements may question the existence of certain disorders.

A minority of professional researchers see disorders such as depression from a sociocultural perspective and argue that solutions should be sought through fixing a dysfunction in the society, not in the sufferer's brain.

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