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Through basic human nature, we tend to classify people into social groups based on common attributes and actions that have been observed by specific groups. When creating these ingroups and outgroups, we tend to overestimate the differences between two groups and underestimate the differences within our own ingroup to save cognitive time and energy. As a result of this cognitive shortcut, we form outgroups specific associations, that could rob people of their individuality and many other qualities of life which is completely dependent on the label that they receive. Within the United States, psychiatric disorders, are no exception to this type of stereotyping and stigmatization. Clinical diagnosis begins the association between a condition and the sense of ingroup and outgroup when relating people to symptoms of psychiatric disorder.

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