The perspective that 12 yrs brings.

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2. In simple elements...education requires a trustworthy source of information

and a student willing to acquire trustworthy information.

Generally speaking, both are less available than might be desired relative to understanding of mental disorders.

Instead, what exists for the general population is a nebulous cloud of untrustworthy information and people who acquire their knowledge of that flawed fog by making associations between its colloquial terms of mental illness and their effectiveness as pejorative adjectives.

In other words education about mental illness doesn't typically take place for the general population. It's something that comes up in special circumstances...such as formal education settings or under motivations caused by the proximity of an association with someone (including self) with a mental disorder.