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How do stigma and discrimination affect people with mental health problems? Nearly nine out of ten people with mental health problems say that stigma and discrimination have a negative effect on their lives.
Public stigma involves the negative or discriminatory attitudes that others may have about mental illness. Self-stigma refers to the negative attitudes, including internalized shame, that people with mental illness may have about their own condition.
Key findings. The picture of stigma in the UK is mixed: there's cause for both concern and hope. Workplace attitudes have improved significantly since 2015. However, other measures of stigma have regressed, and are at risk of worsening further. Foreword. Dr Sarah Hughes, CEO Mind.
Oct 22, 2022 · Stigma and discrimination in people with mental health conditions are pervasive across societies and cultures. Stereotypes about mental health can have an enormous negative impact on the wellbeing and livelihoods of people with mental health conditions, often worsening their condition and delaying or stopping them from getting help.
Nov 29, 2023 · Efforts to understand the mechanisms and consequences of mental health-related stigma and discrimination need to center the perspectives of people affected by these negative impacts, through research efforts that are led or co-led by people with lived experience (PWLE) of mental health conditions.
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Apr 16, 2020 · Since stigma is a complex phenomenon, much more research is needed on public stigma, self-stigma, the impact of stigma on families of persons with mental illness and on structural discrimination of persons with mental illness, especially inside the health care system.
Oct 9, 2022 · It is time to end all forms of stigma and discrimination against people with mental health conditions, for whom there is double jeopardy: the impact of the primary condition and the severe consequences of stigma. Indeed, many people describe stigma as being worse than the condition itself.
