Title: Destigmatizing Mental Illness - Exploring your mind
Headings: Destigmatizing Mental Illness
Destigmatizing Mental Illness
Destigmatizing Mental Illness
The Origins of the Mental Illness Stigma
The Challenges of Destigmatizing Mental Illness
What Can You Do about It?
Who Can Help the Most?
Promoting Mental Health
5 Self-Care Habits for Better Mental Health

Content: Even in ancient times, people set mental health apart from other health issues. Mental illnesses were often perceived as negative (for example, people associated it to demons possessions). However, other times it was linked to being a genius or an artist. Nowadays however, people still look down on those who suffer from mental because of those ancient myths. On the other hand, physical health has always been more visible. But now society is slowly discovering how important psychology is when it comes to physical health issues and how the two are related. Furthermore, according to the World Health Organization, health is composed of psychological, social, and physical well-being. Thus, nowadays many other health organizations have tried to preach the importance of mental well-being as a fundamental aspect of overall health. That’s how people’s perspective on mental illness has progressively changed. The Challenges of Destigmatizing Mental Illness
In order to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness, we should start by debunking some myths: