Mental health stigma endures despite hundreds of years of progress in the science, treatment and understanding around mental illness.
While we no longer drill holes in the skull to release evil spirits, and there has not been a mass sterilization and genocide of mentally ill people since Nazi Germany, stigma remains deep and widespread on personal, societal and institutional levels.
While mentally ill people today are not locked up en masse in asylums, a vast number end up in prison or homeless.
And the impact of the stigma itself is devastating. Read more
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