The article I read titled “Mental Health Providers May Have Biases” by Elaine Meyer talks about how mental health professionals do not want to live near someone with an untreated mental illness. Through a survey given to 731 mental health providers stated that they would not want to live or work with someone who has schizophrenia because they believed they could get violent. They also found that younger people and men are more likely to have negative attitudes towards someone with a mental illness. This is really interesting to me that someone who takes care of these patients and works with them on a daily basis would not want to have them close to them when they leave work. Taking into account that they understand the mental illness that one is going through. Many people think that those who suffer from mental illness’s are crazy and would much rather stay away from them as much as they can, but to think that mental health professionals also feel that way is very interesting. People have also created biases towards people with mental illness’s, when health professionals state that they do not want to be around someone with schizophrenia because they fear as if they might get violent. I would expect those who have more knowledge in that field would be more open to having those with mental illness around them to make them feel better.

https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/mental-health-providers-may-have-biases