Mental Health misinformation is a big deal. It can damage people dealing with mental health issues to spend time chasing down “bogus ” fixes. It can create stigma when the public believes there are easy ways to fix depression and anxiety because how dumb are we not to have done that?
Take a few minutes to read this article and consider some of the points. We all need to get better at spotting misinformation about many topics, not just mental health.
There’s no doubt about this, the more people get used to seeing and hearing about mental health issues among their friends and people they follow on social media, the more likely they’ll see it as no big deal to actually talk about them. I’m in. And if you really want to be a Stigma Rebel,…
Depression does not care what your ethnic background or culture is. It does not discriminate. Based on data from www.MHAScreening.org, we know that Asian Americans are least likely to have a history of diagnosis even though 57% of those who completed a mental health screen scored moderately to severely depressed. Asian Americans are also three…
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– Good, it’s not often that we think about how our sites work for those with disabilities, I’m glad there are folks working to be more inclusive.
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