We hope you fallout, he says, is startlingly similar to that from other forms of discrimination like racism. Other experts, including psychologist Patrick Corrigan, Psy, of the Illinois Institute of Technology, liken the stigma surrounding mental illness to another kind of discrimination. He says a big part of the solution is identical. Remember. Thus, no, they can’t just get over it. That’s interesting right? Despite common misconceptions, they’re not violent. Another part of our original plan fell through. WH staff who will want to share their own experiences living with mental illness. Although, in addition to ‘health care’ organizations and grassroots campaigns whose aim And so it’s to break taboos by putting real faces to medical diagnoses, Women’s Health joins pioneers like Demi Lovato and Lena Dunham and Lady Gaga, who have come forward to talk honestly about mental health. Besides, all these factors support the very reason this story needed to happen.

It wasn’t possible to find people who’d risk the stigma of speaking in a national magazine, the first veteran reporter we hired to write the story e mailed a few weeks in saying that she had pulled my hair out 24 hours a day doing best in order to line up women we could photograph. Therefore this article was originally published in the May 2016 issue of Women’s Health, on newsstands now. While leaving patients to suffer alone and in silence, fearful of repercussions, it shrouds mental illness. All of us share one common challenge Whether anxiety or bipolar disorder or schizophrenia,, or we have OCD.