Essay On Public Stigma

Stigma towards an individual with mental illness still exist. Even with the increase number of dramas or movies that includes mental illness individual roles. They were shown that they are suffers differently. They also shows many ways of helping the affected individual as to encourage the society to have the right mindset against them. Thus, helping the society to know how to react against the situation if it occurs. Even so, the mindset of the society against stigma still persist.

Health Policy Project (2011), mentioned that stigma is powerful social process which devalue an individual. Discrimination follows stigma as it is the unfair treatment of an individual based on the social identified status. They are the formidable barriers to effective and equitable healthcare. It keeps the affected individuals away from seeking help that can improve their health or save their lives. Stigma still persist because of lack of agreed upon measurement tools to quantify the extent and impacts of stigma and discrimination and gauge. Whereas, Mental illness is a disorder that affect your mood, thinking and behavior (Mayo Clinic, 2017). Thereafter, what the individual thinks can lead them to their behavioural changes which they will not notice and behaves weirdly. They will have hallucination and illusion of what people sees and …show more content…
An inaccurate group protest and hostile representative of mental illness is one of the way to challenge the existing stigma. By telling the media to stop reporting against inaccurate ideas of mental illness and tell the public to stop believing the negative view of mental illness. Education will help the society to learn better and understand the behavioural changes of the affected individual. Thereafter, contact will be done by bringing the society close to the affected individual to talk and understand them