Divorcing mental ill health from its social and political context, as the BBC's recent In the Mind Series did, implies wider issues of inequality or poverty don't matter.
Category Archives: Stigma
Hospital offers mental health care to stressed staff | The Toronto …
The program helps hospital colleagues discuss strategies to end the stigma around mental health and provide assistance in creating a work environment that is free “Stigma is hugely prominent in the health care industry,” …
How Solitary Confinement Affects People with Mental Illness | World …
For example, approximately one-third to one-half of Indiana's Secure Housing Unit's prison population has mental illness, according to a report obtained in 1997. During the same year, a federal court found that about half of …
Mental illness is a result of misery, yet still we stigmatise it | Richard …
Patients are being shunned in the mistaken belief they have biological defects. In fact the evidence shows that most have endured traumas.
Ronda Rousey Isn't Ashamed Of Opening Up About Her Mental Health
And she was ready to punch back, citing the service work she's already done to improve mental health awareness in the community. “[We need to take] the stigma away from everything suicide and [make] it actually acceptable …