Title: Mental Illness: Stop the Stigma - Mental Health @ Home
Headings: Mental Illness: Stop the Stigma
Mental Illness: Stop the Stigma
My next book, A Brief History of Stigma, will be released later in 2021.
What Is Stigma?
The Self-Stigma Process
Violence and Other Stereotypes
Strategies to Stop the Stigma
Protest
Education
Contact
Anti-stigma organizations
Raise Your voice
Responding to stigma
Language and Stigma
Taking the illness out of mental illness?
Person-first vs. illness-first language
Health care
Health professions legislation
Police
Other areas of structural stigma
Employment
Housing
Social Stigma
Mentally Ill People In Chains – A Disturbing Reality
The media
Stigma in film
Stop the Stigma – Further Reading
TED Talks on Stigma
Talking About Invisible Illness - Mental Illness: Max Silverman at TEDxBatesCollege

Content: If someone has a problem with me because I’m female, that’s probably because of misogyny rather than the word “female.” Likewise, if someone has a problem with me because I’m mentally ill, that has a lot more to do with the stereotypes in their minds rather than the fact that I say “mentally ill” instead of “person with a mental illness.” An interesting exception to the way people commonly talk about mental illness is with narcissistic personality disorder and the whole narcissistic abuse phenomenon. Armchair diagnosis is embraced, along with language that would be considered stigmatized and cringeworthy if one were to substitute in the name of any other diagnosis. Health care
Mental health care and research has not kept up with the resources allocated to physical health. Adequately funding community mental health care could make a huge difference with better service levels and reduced spending on high-cost acute care over the longer term. By addressing this social disparity, people with mental illness can gain greater autonomy and improved prospects for recovery. An oddity of the mental health care system in the US is they use the term behavioural health .How is mental illness a “behaviour” disorder? Is labelling it that way actually a reflection of stigma? When those of us with mental illness seek care for physical health problems, there’s a very real risk that the health care provider could get caught up in diagnostic overshadowing.