Surviving Mental Illness Stigma in a Judgmental World
Here's what's happening on the HealthyPlace site this week:
- Surviving Mental Illness Stigma in a Judgmental World
- Focus on Yourself, Not the Negativity of Others
- Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
- From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
Surviving Mental Illness Stigma in a Judgmental World
When you struggle with a mental illness, it can be difficult to just make it through the day. Whether you have bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia or another mental illness, when you feel unlike yourself, others often notice. Even though many people try to take the confident route and push mental health stigma aside, it's human to feel frustrated, even "less-than".
The world is filled with judgmental eyes and thoughts. In this day and age, if you talk or behave in an unusual way, you are bound to be talked about. Even though this is unfortunate, the stigma that comes with mental illness can be quite negative.
Focus on Yourself, Not the Negativity of Others
It can be difficult to push aside the negative attitudes of those around you. When it comes to enjoying the life you live, it's crucial to find a way to push those judgmental people aside and embrace the positive in your world. Embrace those who support you and focus on your happiness and not the mental illness stigma surrounding you or the self-stigma inside you. When you are finally able to do just that, the judgmental world we live in won't look as harsh.
Articles Related to Mental Illness Stigma and Judging Others
- Surviving Mental Health Stigma Blog
- The Stigma of Admitting I Am Affected By Mental Illness
- Teach Your Judgmental Child To Be Open Minded
Your Thoughts
Today's Question: How do you manage mental illness stigma? We invite you to participate by commenting and sharing your feelings, experiences and knowledge on the HealthyPlace Facebook page and on the HealthyPlace Google+ page.
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Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
Here are the top 3 mental health articles HealthyPlace Facebook fans are recommending you read:
- Tips to Overcome The Isolation Habit After Domestic Abuse
- Depression When The Sun Shines
- How to Choose a Good Psychiatrist
If you're not already, I hope you'll join us/like us on Facebook too. There are a lot of wonderful, supportive people there.
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From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
On all our blogs, your comments and observations are welcomed.
- Why Treatment for Trauma is So Important for Children (Mental Health Treatment Circle Blog)
- Steps to Self-Care for Depression (Coping with Depression Blog)
- These Awful Effects of Anxiety Must Stop! and If You’re Paranoid, Is Your Anxiety Real? (Anxiety-Schmanxiety Blog)
- Bipolar Passion vs. Bipolar Anger (Breaking Bipolar Blog)
- The Underdiagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (More Than Borderline Blog)
- When Depression Causes a Lack of Motivation and What to Do When the News Triggers Mental Illness Symptoms (Recovering From Mental Illness Blog)
- Developing Hope in PTSD Recovery (Trauma! A PTSD Blog)
- Learn How to Control Your Emotions and Feel Confident and Stop Being Ashamed of Low Self-Esteem (Building Self-Esteem Blog)
- Online Bipolar Assessment Quiz Creating Mental Health Stigma (Surviving Mental Health Stigma Blog)
- When You Talk About Your Binge Eating Disorder (Binge Eating Recovery Blog)
- Self-Harm and Skin Picking on the Internet (Speaking Out About Self-Injury Blog)
- 6 Tips on How to Find a Great Mental Health Counselor (Your Mental Health Blog)
- How to Escape the Hell of Perfectionist Paralysis (Treating Anxiety Blog)
- What Not to Say to a Parent of a Child with Mental Illness (Life with Bob)
- Dissociative Identity Disorder and Substance Addiction (Dissociative Living Blog)
- Is It A Diet or An Eating Disorder? (Surviving ED Blog)
- Growing Up and Dating with My Mental Illness (Getting Through Tough Times Blog)
- Rejection Over Being Queer and Depression (The Life: LGBT Mental Health Blog)
- Milestones in Sobriety and Managing Expectations and Resentments in Sobriety (Debunking Addiction Blog)
- Anxiety and Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder (Creative Schizophrenia Blog)
Feel free to share your thoughts and comments at the bottom of any blog post. And visit the mental health blogs homepage for the latest posts.
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APA Reference
Aline, J.
(2015, March 19). Surviving Mental Illness Stigma in a Judgmental World, HealthyPlace. Retrieved
on 2024, November 17 from https://www.healthyplace.com/other-info/mental-health-newsletter/surviving-mental-illness-stigma-in-a-judgmental-world
