Sunday, August 16, 2009

Stigma and Mental Illness



Why should mental illness be treated differently from any other kind of illness?

Jacob Ramsey, who suffers from mental illness, talks about stigma and what to do about it. He is a member of Step Up on Second, www.stepuponsecond.org, a not-for-profit organization in Santa Monica, California that provides housing and other services to people with severe mental illness.

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ABOUT this campaign

there are two aims we want to achieve:

1) that mentally ill people are the same as you and I in every other way

2) that there should be no shame in seeking help for such problems

we'll be having a mental health awareness campaign from 26-28 august, so do look out for us!

[edit:010909] thank you all for your kind support during our campaign! we will still continue to post up useful information about conferences and CIP opportunities and occasionally facts and videos, so do stay tuned to our blog! because there has been some technical errors with the comments and tagboard, we have also recently opened up an e-mail account: x.team09@gmail.com! so just drop us an email if you have any queries or clarifications (: [/edit]