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We Need to Stop Pitting Mental Illness and Physical Disability Against Each Other

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“We need to make getting mental illness accommodations as easy as getting physical disability accommodations.” The first time I heard this, I was at a roundtable consultation and was in complete shock.

I had never heard this before, and immediately saw it as divisive and negative rhetoric pitting physical disabilities against mental illnesses.

The second time I heard this, I was providing strategic advice at a consultation. My face immediately hinted at my disbelief (as it always does) and the facilitator asked me to speak on it – which I did, respectfully and hesitantly.

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