Mental Health Stigma Amongst Those With Mental Illness
HealthyPlace Mental Health Newsletter
Here's what's happening on the HealthyPlace site this week:
- Mental Health Stigma Amongst The Mentally Ill
- Help Spread Awareness of Mental Illness
- Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
- From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
- Stand Up for Mental Health
- Raising Challenging Children
- Latest Mental Health News
Mental Health Stigma Amongst Those With Mental Illness
Yes, even those with a diagnosed mental illness engage in mental health stigma.
Maybe you have depression and have thought to yourself, "Thank goodness, I'm not Bipolar. Those people are really crazy!" Our guest blogger, Sandy Rosenblatt, has trichotillomania (hair-pulling disorder), yet refused to write about trichophagia (eating hair), a symptom that some with trich experience. Why? She didn't want people to think she did "that".
Even our own mental health stigma blogger, Chris Curry, came forward recently to say he has stigmatizing thoughts (Even the Stigma Blogger Stigmatizes). Chris has battled major depression, addiction, anxiety and more and is a mental health and addiction counselor. Chris might be the last person you would think engages in mental health stigma.
Yet, it happens. Why? Because we're human. We compare ourselves to others. We rationalize our challenges in life. Occasionally, we all have these kinds of thoughts to one extent or another. But as Chris notes in the above story, it's important to be aware of your thoughts and take corrective action going forward and be a little bit better than we were yesterday.
Related Mental Health Stigma Stories
- Mental Health Stigma: Prejudice and Discrimination
- Stigma and Discrimination: The Effect of Stigma
- Standing Up to Mental Health Stigma Stories
- Self-Stigma: When Mental Illness Stigma Comes From Within
- Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness Affects Recovery
- Mental Illness (Bipolar II) and Self-Stigma: A Personal Story
- Stigma of Self-Injury
- Quotes on Mental Illness Stigma
Your Thoughts
Today's Question: "You Don’t Have A Mental Illness! It’s All in Your Head!" Have you ever heard those words? And has anyone ever made you doubt that you really have a mental illness? We invite you to participate by commenting and sharing your feelings, experiences and knowledge on the HealthyPlace Facebook page.
Help Spread Awareness of Mental Illness
Get Our Mental Health Blog Widget
Over 300 sites and blogs are helping spread awareness of mental illness. How about putting our mental health blogs widget on your website, blog or social page? The latest HealthyPlace blog headlines appear as soon as the articles are posted on our site. Just click "Get Widget" at the bottom of the widget, grab the embed code and paste it into your page. You'll also see embed links for Wordpress, Blogger, Linkedin and other social sites there.
As a bonus, put the blogs widget on your site or blog, email us (info AT healthyplace.com) with a page link where it appears, and we'll give a shoutout to your site, blog, or social site on our Facebook and Twitter pages.
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Share our Stories
At the top and bottom of all our stories, you'll find social share buttons for Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Pinterest and other social sites. If you find a particular story, video, psychological test or other HealthyPlace feature helpful, there's a good chance others in need will too. Please share.
We also get many inquiries about our linking policy. If you have a website or blog, you can link to any page on the HealthyPlace website without asking us beforehand.
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Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
Here are the top 3 mental health articles HealthyPlace Facebook fans are recommending you read:
If you're not already, I hope you'll join us/like us on Facebook too. There are a lot of wonderful, supportive people there.
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Mental Health Experiences
Share your thoughts/experiences with any mental health subject, or respond to other people's audio posts, by calling our toll-free number (1-888-883-8045).
You can listen to what other people are saying by clicking on the gray title bars inside the widgets located on the "Sharing Your Mental Health Experiences" homepage, the HealthyPlace homepage, and the HealthyPlace Support Network homepage.
If you have any questions, write us at: info AT healthyplace.com
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From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
On all our blogs, your comments and observations are welcomed.
- Talk About Depression, Tell Somebody (Coping with Depression Blog)
- The Truth About Truth (video) (Anxiety-Schmanxiety Blog)
- What is the Difference Between Depression and Grief? (Breaking Bipolar Blog)
- Living With Bipolar Disorder and Finding Your Identity (Bipolar Vida Blog)
- Sound Familiar? “You don’t have a mental illness! It’s all in your head!” (Recovering From Mental Illness Blog)
- PTSD and Neurofeedback (Trauma! A PTSD Blog)
- Simple Skills for Self-Respect (Building Self-Esteem Blog)
- The Stigma of Obesity (Surviving Mental Health Stigma Blog)
- Abuse Can Change A Victim’s True Nature (Verbal Abuse and Relationships Blog)
- The Secret Life of Self-Injury (Speaking Out About Self-Injury Blog)
- Schizophrenia Relapse: Real Life and On "Perception", Season 2 (Mental Illness in the Family Blog)
- The Stigma of Trichophagia – Eating Hair (Your Mental Health Blog)
- Self-Care: Having Fun is Good For You (Life with Bob Blog)
- BPD and Narcissistic Personality Disorder and How Therapy Is Like Pushing a Boulder (video) (More Than Borderline Blog)
- Avoiding an Eating Disorder Relapse (Surviving ED Blog)
- Mass Communication: Recreation, Addiction or Plague? (Funny in the Head: A Mental Health Humor Blog)
- Women and Adult ADHD (Living with Adult ADHD Blog)
- An Artist Not A Doctor (Creative Schizophrenia Blog)
Feel free to share your thoughts and comments at the bottom of any blog post. And visit the mental health blogs homepage for the latest posts.
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Stand Up for Mental Health
Thousands Have Joined the Stand Up for Mental Health Campaign
But we still need you. Let others know there's no shame in having depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, trichotillomania, OCD, ADHD, schizophrenia or any other mental illness.
Join the Stand Up for Mental Health campaign. Put a button on your website or blog (buttons for family members, parents, mental health professionals and organizations too). We also have covers for Facebook, Twitter and Google+.
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Raising Challenging Children
Raising challenging children can turn the parenting journey into a minefield of mistakes and mishaps. Not to worry though. Dr. Steven Richfield, "The Parenting Coach," has some parenting advice on raising challenging children.
Latest Mental Health News
These stories and more are featured on our mental health news page:
- Don't Make Your Children the Exception to Every Rule
- Do You Want To Know A Secret?
- The Mother of All Advice: Difficult Mothers and the Difficulty of Loving Them
- Here Comes the Sun: How Much Vitamin D Do You Need?
- The American Way: What Really Makes Us Americans?
- What Happy People Do Differently?
- Rise In Anti-Depressant Use Across Europe Coincides With Drop In Suicide Rates
- What Is Depersonalization? What Causes Depersonalization?
- Homicide By Mentally Ill Falls, But Patient Suicide Rises In England
- Being Mentally Active Helps Preserve Memory
- Objective Sleep Measures Fail to Predict Depression
- Psychologic Model Highlights Bipolar Subtypes
- Pediatric Mania Rarely Persists
- Cognitive Outweighs Clinical Insight for Predicting Psychosis Outcome
That's it for now. If you know of anyone who can benefit from this newsletter or the HealthyPlace.com site, I hope you'll pass this onto them. You can also share the newsletter on any social network (like facebook, stumbleupon, or digg) you belong to by clicking the links below. For updates throughout the week:
APA Reference
Staff, H.
(2013, July 8). Mental Health Stigma Amongst Those With Mental Illness, HealthyPlace. Retrieved
on 2024, December 22 from https://www.healthyplace.com/other-info/mental-health-newsletter/mental-health-stigma-amongst-the-mentally-ill
