Mental Health Stigma
We judge people based on the mental health issues that they might
have. That's not okay. It's time for a change. Can we get better
together?
More than 50% of people with depression do not get treatment. At the same time, around 16.2 million adults were diagnoised with depression in the United States alone. Who knows how many more cases are ignored or undiscovered because of the lack of understanding we have about the importance of our mental health?
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Self harm is often a sign that a person is in emotional pain or stress. Yet many choose to keep quiet about their wounds out of shame, guilt, and the like. Can we help them?
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Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death, taken by people who can't bear their lives any more. Beyond that, there are suicide survivors, and those who attempted, who have to live with the sneers that we show towards this topic. How do we tell them that it's okay to talk about it normally, when we ignore it like we do now?
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