MENTAL HEALTH DISCRIMINATION
Spotlight On How Toxic People See Mental Health Right Now
We must know how to turn the tables on discrimination
Note from the author.
Originally written by the author and published in Invisible Illness in 2021. Removed, reviewed, and repurposed by the author in 2024, and transferred within the realms of NO SHAME.
My reason for doing this?
“This comes from a result of me NOT sensing that the point of this article was pushed enough to be able to get this message out there in the first place. The stigma and discrimination that mental health continues to receive across the world, is not being veraciously put out there enough.”
More than half of people with mental illness don’t receive help for their disorders. Often, people avoid or delay seeking treatment due to concerns about being treated differently or fears of losing their jobs and livelihood. That’s because stigma, prejudice and discrimination against people with mental illness are still very much a problem.
America Psychiatric Association. (Reviewed by Singhal, N., March 2024.)
Stigma, prejudice and discrimination against people with mental illness can be subtle or obvious — but…
