Buddy Check for Jesse works to increase awareness around mental health in youth, aiming to destigmatize asking for help. The Victoria-based organization was created to give coaches the tools they need to talk to kids about the importance of taking care of mental health and gett...
“Here’s to ending the stigma around mental health and normalizing asking for help,” Grande captioned a mini gallery of text slides about the subject. “Healing isn’t linear, fun, quick or at all easy but we are here and we’ve got to commit to making this time as healthy, peaceful...
The stigma around mental health in athletes is skewed by perception. Some may wonder how someone so strong and elite be subject to mental health issues. But their physical abilities have little to do with their mental health. This stigma often spurs an intense cycle of poor mental health, ...
Stigma around mental illness has had very immense adverse effects on the willingness of undiagnosed suffers to not seek treatment when they need it. As a result of this one in five people with a mental illness will not get the treatment they need which has the effect of high suicide rates ...
This years World Mental Health Day theme for this year’s campaign is ‘Mental Health For All’. In light of this, we are reflecting around how we create a safe space in the workplace to tackle mental health?
Some people insiststigmaaround mental health is no longer an issue in our society, and mental illness no longer a taboo topic. Those having this mindset likely don’t live in a community where asking for help means potential ostracization, or come from a cultural background in ...
Interestingly, 79 percent agreed that less stigma and shame around mental health disorders would lower suicide rates and 84 percent said people should not be ashamed to say a loved one died by suicide – yet 30 percent said that they would keep quiet about the cause of death if their own ...
As art therapists we are committed to supporting our clients and service users as they work through mental health issues; however, the development of interventions to reduce the mental health discrimination and stigma people experience on a daily basis are in their infancy. Using non-medicalised ...
with a bipolar mother. I let myself get raw and vulnerable up on stage, and afterward, colleagues came up to me and said, “Wow—you really exposed yourself.” But I knew that, by being me, I was creating a safe space for others to talk about their own issues around mental health....
At Albion, some students are working to break the stigma around mental health by planning programs with speakers and panels to inform and raise students’ awareness. With the help of some student organizations, the college hosts events that help raise awareness for different mental health issues. ...