New State Of Mind: Ending The Stigma Of Mental Health

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Having good mental health allows you to feel, act or think in a normal way and live a normal life. Poor mental health can range from ordinary to more unusual problems that can make you feel unwell, and in some cases even make you lose your mind. In many cases, mental health issues developed due to a series of events or situations continuously happening in your life leaving excessive stress or anxiety disorders. For many suffering from this horrible illness, the discrimination is obvious and severe these days. In A New State of Mind: Ending the Stigma of Mental Illness the goal is to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness and motivate sufferers to seek the help they need before the problem escalates. Often when I see or hear about someone with mental health problems, I immediately associate them with serial killers, psychopaths, crazy or retarded people but I have never stopped and think about how in some cases some of them can be good people needing support that can help turn their life around. I do think some psychopaths are just born with it and need to be supervised always to prevent crimes, but that does not mean that we need to discriminate and turn our backs on people who need all the help they can get to better the issue. …show more content…

Seeing how many ordinary people face barriers while they are trying to recover makes me feel some type of way towards the issue. I never thought there was so much stigma and racist discrimination surrounding the matter. A former mental health advocate Patrick Kennedy mentions how two-thirds of the people who do have access to mental health never take advantage of it because of the stigma associated with it. This tells us how, discrimination is the real problem preventing hundreds of people from seeking the help they need because they fear how they might be

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