Fox Topix: Mental Illness Awareness

Anderson hopes Stepping Up will be a way to de-stigmatize mental illness in America. Four of my six family members were hospitalized with diagnoses ranging from schizophrenia to borderline personality disorder to depression. We loved each other and, together, worked through life’s rough spots.

In the foreword to the report that accompanies the day’s awareness raising, Professor George Christodoulou, president of the World Federation for Mental Health, explains the thinking behind this year’s focus.

This statistics was announced on Saturday by WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, during a message she delivered on this year’s World Mental Health Day.

“In the movies on the television shows the mentally ill are all projected as being evil and mean uh violent and that’s not that’s not true”, says Wiseman.

“We’re losing too many people to this illness and they hadn’t been perhaps getting the support they needed”, he said. It’s a lot harder to ask for help than you would realise. “Employers also need to look at how well their corporate culture supports good mental health and employee wellbeing”. Educators can invite experts to talk to students about suicide, trauma and resiliency.

We want people to know that these disorders are treatable, but according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in Massachusetts only 52.8 percent of our adult population receives treatment.

“What we see instead is that people admitted to in-patient facilities throughout all countries in the world are exposed to violence, sexual abuse”, she said. There are tests you can take online, Lifeways in Jackson offers one. “We have a responsibility to encourage people who may be suffering in silence to speak up and seek help”. People across Kent will be able to access information about support services at a range of venues including Thanet, Tonbridge, Sheppey, Sevenoaks, Tunbridge Wells and Whitstable. This can only happen if we have an open understanding of roles and responsibilities and a consistent approach going forward. Stigmatising and discriminatory treatment can be particularly distressing when a person is experiencing a health crisis.