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Mental-illness labels have a boundary effect, as they identify what behaviors a society defines as sick, with pressures being put on citizens to avoid such behaviors.
 
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An adverse effect of being labeled mentally ill is that the people may believe they have a disease for which unfortunately there is no known cure and start using this as an excuse for not taking responsibility for their actions.
 
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