Guest Post: How to Foil Mental Health StigmaCassie Rodenberg
“There is a tendency to work throughout the day to overcome some stigma that you aren’t working when not in the office,”saysDavid Rabin, vice president of global commercial marketing at Lenovo. While you may assume that that will help you overcome your guilt, the truth is that doing s...
I work with someone who does harm reduction work, which might not traditionally fall under our definition of creativity, but they are thinking differently about how to communicate messages and how to change stigma. We often think of creativity as the outcome or the product. But, you can get ...
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...
World Mental Health Day 2024's theme is "Mental Health at Work," which emphasizes the "vital connection between mental health and work,"according to the WHO. "Safe, healthy working environments can act as a protective factor for mental health. Unhealthy conditions including stigma, discrimination...
mental health day, doing so can help minimize the stigma around mental health at work and create a transparent, open culture. It can also give you and your manager the opportunity to discuss ways to prioritize your mental health at work, lessening the chance of long-term impacts like ...
“Topics like STI testing and prevention may not feel comfortable, especially for a new partner and all of the stigma associated with it, but this is crucial for maintaining good health and allowing you to enjoy sex without worrying,” says Rebecca Alvarez, sexologist and co-founder/CEO ofBloo...
Many bloggers are advocates for mental health and use their blog to spread awareness and decrease stigma. Others start a mental health blog to write about their personal struggles with mental illness oraddiction. Which category do you fall under? Or is there another reason you want to start a...
There is so much stigma about IVF and choosing the gender of your baby and most people who need it tend to hide their situation. They, therefore, prefer to bear the burden alone, no matter how crippling the costs are. It is so vital that you share the case with your friends and famil...
In an era when obesity prevalence is high throughout much of the world, there is a correspondingly pervasive and strong culture of weight stigma. For example, representative studies show that some forms of weight discrimination are more prevalent even th