Mental illness carries much stigma out in the public arena. Visit the websites http://www.changedirection.org/ and www.nami.org to look around the sites. Here you will learn a lot of useful information on mental illness. Pay particular attention to eliminating stigma. Talk about how you personally can help to fight the stigma of mental health. 1. What are some of the ways that stigma negatively impacts people with a mental illness? 2. Tell us what ideas you have that we can all do to fight the stigma. 3. Try out one of your ideas and tell us what the results were or tell us about something that you have already done to help. This is what YOU have done to destigmatize. It is NOT what you could or will do. Examples could be when you talked to a friend to educate them on mental illness, asked someone to stop using a negative word to describe someone else or when you got to know someone with a mental illness and being supportive of them. Need to 200 words!!
Mental illness carries much stigma out in the public arena. Visit the websites http://www.changedirection.org/ and www.nami.org to look around the sites. Here you will learn a lot of useful information on mental illness. Pay particular attention to eliminating stigma. Talk about how you personally can help to fight the stigma of mental health.
1. What are some of the ways that stigma negatively impacts people with a mental illness?
2. Tell us what ideas you have that we can all do to fight the stigma.
3. Try out one of your ideas and tell us what the results were or tell us about something that you have already done to help. This is what YOU have done to destigmatize. It is NOT what you could or will do. Examples could be when you talked to a friend to educate them on mental illness, asked someone to stop using a negative word to describe someone else or when you got to know someone with a mental illness and being supportive of them.
Need to 200 words!!
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