disability Archives - Mental Health

The stigma of mental illness

By Stephen Lawrie • April 20, 2015 disability, mental illness, stigma

Mental illness and those who suffer from it and even those that treat it are stigmatised.

The ideas challenged in previous blogs – that mental illness does not exist [1], is trivial [2], that treatments don’t work [3], that people with mental illness are somehow to blame for their problems … Continue reading →

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Mental illness is common, disabling, stigmatised and under-treated

By Stephen Lawrie • March 16, 2015 disability, mental illness, prevalence, stigma

Mental illness affects 37% of the adult population over a typical year in the European Union [1], and about 50% of the population over the average lifetime in the USA [2], although figures are slightly lower in less industrialised nations.[3] Recent, large, well-conducted studies suggest that Schizophrenia and Bipolar disorder … Continue reading →