[…] in the Public Interest” found that 40% of the 60 million people living with mental illness go without treatment. The study identified two perception-related barriers to care: stigma surrounding mental health and people’s inability to recognize their symptoms. The results of this study beg the question: How can we best eradicate stigma and help […]
[…] cause of it). The episode culminated with a two-and-a-half-week stay in a psychiatric hospital and months in group outpatient counseling. Dealing with The Aftermath and the Accompanying Stigma After my mental health crisis, I faced several challenges. Of course, I had to grapple with the reality of my manic behaviors, but I also had […]
[…] lose some people, but mental illness will show you the people who matter most in your life. Don’t be afraid to set boundaries and enforce them. Fighting Stigma Is Half the Battle Healing requires acknowledging and surviving the stigma surrounding mental illness. Stigma is ignorance. It is the problem of those who perpetuate it, […]
Due to the pressures of today's 24-hour news cycle, media outlets frequently rush to ill-informed conclusions. Often, those conclusions feed harmful mental illness stigma.
During Mental Health Month, there’s always a lot of talk about breaking the stigma surrounding mental illness. Well, it seems like we’ve still got a long way to go.
[…] and African-American study participants more commonly emphasized “non-biomedical interpretations” of mental illness symptoms—meaning that they focused more on spirituality, moral character and social explanations for mental illness. Stigma Although the European-Americans in the study described above felt the impact of social stigma and rejection, stigma was far more of a prominent, core theme for […]
[…] bipolar disorder. Tune in to hear more about Alessandra’s journey balancing self-care with motherhood, decisions about medication during pregnancy, and living with a mental health diagnosis and stigma. You can find additional episodes of this NAMI podcast and others at nami.org/podcast. We hope this podcast encourages you, inspires you, helps you and brings you […]
[…] director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) today released the following statement: "It has been a bad two weeks for Americans with concerns about the stigma that surrounds mental illness. For all the progress that has been made in recent years, Dr. Phil of the CBS Distribution Network and Brian Williams of […]
[…] Supreme Court Justice John Roberts "needs medication for schizophrenia," based on the logic of decisions in court rulings last week. "As a political tactic, Governor Huckabee has exploited the stigma that traditionally has surrounded mental illness in order to attack the competence and credibility of someone with whom he disagrees," said Mary Giliberti, executive director of the […]
[…] For example, only 33 percent of respondents know that manic depression is characterized by wide swings in emotion or mood. The latest survey also confirmed that social stigma continues to dictate many people's attitudes toward mental illness – 44 percent believe people with manic depression are often violent, and another 25 percent think people […]
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