Mental Health Awareness Month

Increasing Awareness of Mental Health Issues

The first step in breaking the stigma regarding mental health issues is by increasing people’s exposure to the subject. Talking openly about mental health experiences makes it less taboo, and the more people who are exposed to the issue, the more they are likely to be curious than frightened.

#breakthestigma is about ending the public attitude that having a mental illness makes a person less valuable to society, and about ending the correlated dismissive and dehumanizing treatment. Stereotyping anyone in a negative way has never benefited society, only damaged it, and we at the Mental Health Foundation believe this stigma must end if we are to see society help those suffering with a mental illness become all they can be.