Tag: anti-stigma campaigns
The Carter Center’s Guide for Mental Health Journalism: Donât Question, Follow...
The Carter Centerâs Journalism Resource Guide on Behavioral Health is a manual for docile journalism. There is no encouragement to be skeptical of the powerful in psychiatry. Rather, the guide provides reporters with a template to follow that reifies conventional wisdom, offering a message similar to what the American Psychiatric Association has sounded for years.
Stigma and Discrimination Linked to the Biomedical Model of Mental Health
Study traces the history of biomedical explanations of psychopathology to show how stigma and discrimination are reinforced when other possible explanations are ignored.
The Pill Shaming Phenomenon: Whatâs It Really About?
At best, the underpinnings of the âpill shamingâ accusation are misguided. At worst, they represent a concerted effort on the part of the current power structure to use us against ourselves (and they donât need any more help). Itâs the same old story packaged up as if it were something new and ultra woke.
Anti-Stigma Campaigns Enable Inequality, Sociologists Argue
Scholars contend that stigma functions as a mechanism of power in analysis of UK Heads Together mental health campaign.
How Pharma Uses the Charge of “Stigma” to Sell Drugs
From The Epoch Times: Many advocacy groups claiming to combat the stigma of mental illness are actually front groups that represent the interests of pharmaceutical...
New Bill Targets Asian-American, Pacific Islander Community
From NBC News: Representative Judy Chu recently introduced the Stop Mental Health Stigma in Our Communities Act, a bill to reduce mental health stigma in...
“Active Minds” â What Conversation Are We Changing?
Active Minds allows college students to start conversations on some of the most difficult struggles we face in life, but I urge the organization to lead the conversation away from bad science and towards the common struggles that we endure as human beings.
To the Heart of the Matter, Part III: The Critical Nature...
If we are going to really make a difference in the world of mental health stigma, we must get to the heart of the matter. All people deserve compassionate, honest care. All people, stigmatized and stigmatizers, deserve to be heard, understood, and valued, no matter what worth that society may place on them. I am my brotherâs keeper. You are mine.
Large German Anti-Stigma Campaign Shows Little Effect on Attitudes
âOverall, this study showed that the information and awareness campaign had almost no significant effects on the general public's attitudes toward people affected by either schizophrenia or depression,â the researchers, led by German medical sociologist Anna Makowski, wrote. âOne could assume that deeply rooted convictions cannot be modified by rather time-limited and general activities targeted at the public.â
To the Heart of the Matter, Part II:Â Perceptions of Public and...
Public perception of mental health stigma does not entirely reflect a reality that exists. Many of you reading this that have experienced truly negative reactions from others (due to mental health concerns and/or treatment) may be angered or offended by this proposition. However, no one (especially myself) is saying that stigma is not a serious concern that doesnât need to be addressed. It is. Although in some ways I do feel that people can seek out treatment with less apprehension today than decades ago, there is no doubt that many still experience negative reactions (intentionally or unintentionally) from what others perceive in them.
Culturally Numb
Experiencing emotional pain is a necessary part of life. Emotional pain often contains valuable lessons to help us on our journeys. We need to make sure we are not numbing our hearts to those that are hurting. We need to de-stigmatize the struggles, joys and pains that come with being human. We need to not just mindlessly pursue happiness - though we might think of that as an inalienable right - and avoid pain. We need to do the only thing that brings true joy: embrace all of life and each other, as we experience together all that makes us human.
âMental Illness and Gun Violence: Stigmatizing People Isnât the Answer”
In an opinion piece for care2, Katie Medlock discusses how âmental illnessâ awareness campaigns have shifted, dangerously, âand ended up insinuating that people with mental illness could turn on âusâ at any time and should be feared.â
Madness and Play: Exploring the Boundary
When children do things like recoil in fear from monsters and ghosts in their darkened bedroom at night, itâs easy to see the âout of touch with realityâ aspect of their experience as being closely related to the faculty that gives them their ability to play â their imagination. We help children through such challenging experiences by being with them, and by playing together, doing things like creating scary images together and then figuring out how to cope with them or laugh at them. In the process we help them explore how to create a world view that works to at least some extent and has room for joy and originality - when their imagination helps them (and maybe others) see the world in new ways.