Unlikeness stigma

Unlikeness stigma is the notion that people considered “mentally ill” are suffering from a physiological brain difference that prevents them from having agency or choice over their actions. Because “the mentally ill” can’t control their behaviors on their own, they need someone to step in and take over. “Schizophrenics can’t control whether or not they are violent the way you or I can,” a person who harbors unlikeness stigma might say. “They need to be locked up for their own good and for the good of society.” [Cutler 18]
== Branching ==
Stigma.
Taboo.
Likeness; Conformity; Conformism.