Guest Post: How to Foil Mental Health StigmaCassie Rodenberg
This Guide is part of a series of four Guides to reduce stigma. The Guides are for all managers, health and social workers and service staff who have to deal with stigma in leprosy and other health conditions. These Guides provide evidence-based and best-practice information from diff erent ...
It’s no secret that the stigma associated with mental illness prevents many from seeking help for widely treatable conditions.
How stigma interferes with mental health care. Many people who would benefit from mental health services opt not to pursue them or fail to fully participate once they have begun. One of the reasons for ... Corrigan,Patrick - 《Am Psychol》...
But the greatest barrier to conversations, especially in older generations, are the cultural stigmas, experts agreed. It was not until I learned new words — such as 自卑 (zìbēi), which means “insecure” — that I was able to narrow the communication gap with my parents. Instead of jus...
conversations. We need to listen. And we need to start reducing the stigma associated with mental health. Companies are now starting to have mental health days. What a great idea. It's not just physical sick days, it's mental health days. Things are changing. We can add to that change...
“Those implications have ripple effects through generations … because there may not be an openness to have discussions about mental health — or about the past — within families.” Part of this is because mental health has a heavy stigma in Vietnamese communities, explained Dr. Mai Đỗ...
On this week's episode of ‘Secrets of the Most Productive People,’ we talk about the mental health struggles so many of us are facing right now—and how to bring it up with your manager.
travel freely, coming home to a loving family, or having all the cats and dogs in the world.But things are getting harder by the second.It can be nearly impossible just getting out of bed in the morning.Why is it so much easier giving in to negativity than it is to get out of it...
The conversation requires speaking up and, as with most things, normalizing an experience by sharing it with others. These personal conversations might be the first step to reversing the stigma, Pierce said, but they're not the easiest to have, as sexual health is often a very private topic...