{"id":41838,"date":"2017-05-02T17:31:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T23:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=41838"},"modified":"2017-05-02T17:31:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T23:31:48","slug":"7-dangerous-myths-tell-mental-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/05\/7-dangerous-myths-tell-mental-illness.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;7 Dangerous Myths We Tell Ourselves about Mental Illness&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41839\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41839\" style=\"width: 485px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/05\/Alexander_B._Morrison.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41839\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41839\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/05\/Alexander_B._Morrison.jpg\" alt=\"Morrison in 1992, by Lachoneus\" width=\"485\" height=\"516\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elder Alexander B. Morrison of the Seventy, speaking at the groundbreaking for the Orlando Florida Temple in 1992. (Wikimedia CC public domain photo by Lachoneus)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I first met <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_B._Morrison\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Elder Alexander B. Morrison<\/a>, since 2000 an emeritus member of the Seventy, many years ago, while he was still an actively serving General Authority. \u00a0I very much appreciate him, and I appreciate his work on this particular cause:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ldsliving.com\/7-Dangerous-Myths-We-Tell-Ourselves-About-Mental-Illness\/s\/85139?utm_source=ldsliving&amp;utm_medium=email\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.ldsliving.com\/7-Dangerous-Myths-We-Tell-Ourselves-About-Mental-Illness\/s\/85139?utm_source=ldsliving&amp;utm_medium=email<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from London, England<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 I first met Elder Alexander B. Morrison, since 2000 an emeritus member of the Seventy, many years ago, while he was still an actively serving General Authority. \u00a0I very much appreciate him, and I appreciate his work on this particular cause: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.ldsliving.com\/7-Dangerous-Myths-We-Tell-Ourselves-About-Mental-Illness\/s\/85139?utm_source=ldsliving&amp;utm_medium=email \u00a0 Posted from London, England \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;7 Dangerous Myths We Tell Ourselves about Mental Illness&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; &nbsp; I first met Elder Alexander B. 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