Stigma can be defined, studied, and measured. When stigma is promoted through the organizations and systems that govern daily life, it is called structural stigma. Stigma itself is a powerful social ...

The seven main types of stigma include public, self, perceived, label, structural, health practitioner, and associative. It involves assigning people with certain traits and can have harmful effects ...

Mental health stigma refers to negative beliefs people may hold about those with mental illness, which can lead to stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination. Public awareness and literacy have ...

Despite decades of progress, stigma still shadows mental health in 2025, quietly shaping lives from classrooms to workplaces. Every year on October 10, World Mental Health Day offers a reminder that ...

In the 1990s, mental health awareness organizations like the National Alliance for Mental Illness held high hope that the stigma toward schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses would soon end.

Interview with Dr. Nora Volkow on stigma against people who use drugs and its effects on care delivery and the burden of substance use disorders. 11m 26s Download Between 1999 and 2017, more than ...

Mental health stigma is the largest community barrier to improving global mental health, and in Latin American cultures, this stigma may be more prevalent. The World Health Organization (WHO) claim ...

Over the past few decades, we’ve come a long way in how we view and talk about mental health. And that should come as no surprise, because 1 in 5 adults in the United States lives with a mental health ...

Ashwin Dhanda receives funding from the National Institute of Health and Social Care Research for a study investigating methods to tackle stigma in alcohol-related liver disease. One of my patients, ...

Mental health stigma refers to societal disapproval or when society places shame on people who live with a mental illness or seek help for emotional distress, such as anxiety, depression, bipolar ...