384 - Why Mental Illness Has A Stigma
Tiny Leaps, Big Changes
Gregg Clunis
4.3 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In the US, 1 in 5 people will struggle with mental illness each year so in this episode we are looking at why mental illness and mental health are so stigmatized, how the media adds to this stereotype, and how we can help fight these stigmas ourselves.
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Key Points:
- How mental health stigmas began
- The damage these stigmas cause
- Mental health stigmas in minority communities
- How the media portrays mental health
- How you can affect change on these stereotypes
Notable Quote:
if we want to end or even just reduce the stigma around mental illness and mental health, then we need to recognize that we have it and we need to catch ourselves when those things happen. The only person we can focus on improving is ourselves by catching ourselves. - Gregg Clunis
Resources:
Mental Health UK: https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/a-to-z/s/stigma-and-discrimination
The stigma of Mental Disorders: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5007563/
Understanding the impact of stigma on people with mental illness: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1489832/
Mental Health & Stigma: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/why-we-worry/201308/mental-health-stigma
Mental Health By The Numbers: https://www.nami.org/learn-more/mental-health-by-the-numbers
Global mental health: five key insights which emerge from the data: https://ourworldindata.org/global-mental-health
Black Therapists Explain the Stigma of Mental Health in Minority Communities: https://thethirty.whowhatwear.com/mental-health-in-minority-communities
Drapetomania: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania
Challenging Mental Health Stigma In The Black Community: https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/July-2018/Challenging-Mental-Health-Stigma-in-the-Black-Comm
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | In this |
| 0:01.0 | we explore the stigma around mental illness and how it got there to begin with. |
| 0:08.0 | Get excited because this is Tiny Leaps. |
| 0:13.8 | Big Change. |
| 0:14.8 | Welcome to another episode. |
| 0:20.7 | Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaps, big changes where I share simple strategies |
| 0:27.1 | you can use to get more out of your life. My name is Greg Klunis and in this episode we are looking at why mental |
| 0:36.4 | illness and mental health has a stigma in the first place because it's reported |
| 0:41.9 | that one in five people at least in the United States |
| 0:46.2 | will struggle with mental illness in any given year so it's incredibly common, but for some reason, for some reason as a society, we still |
| 0:57.0 | place massive stigma on it and especially in communities of color. So we want to look at why that is and potentially try to |
| 1:06.0 | break away from that stigma at least a little bit. Now before we jump into the |
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| 1:35.0 | So as we've just established, mental illness is an incredibly common issue. |
| 1:40.8 | One in five Americans, that's representative of about 46 million people, |
| 1:46.4 | experience mental illness in any given year. One in five, that's 20% of people experience mental illness in any given year. |
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