mental illness awareness & action
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Test your awareness level
Take the quiz and discover how aware you are about mental illness
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Raise awareness for mental illness
Raise awareness for mental illness
Use our how-to guide for ideas on how you can raise awareness
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Mental illness often takes on the qualities of
the proverbial elephant-in-the-room: it’s there, we know it’s there, but no one is talking about it. The main reasons for this remain the two big S’s: stigma
and silence.
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The most challenging obstacle to mental illness awareness
is a combination of lack of knowledge and misinformation. Mental illness is sensationalized in the media, with fiction often casting a shadow over fact. How
much do you know about mental illness? Use this quiz to see how much you already know about mental illness, and to find out where you have the opportunity to
improve your understanding.
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When someone you love is diagnosed with a
mental illness, it can be very confusing and frightening. If you do not have a lot of experience with mental illness, it might be difficult to know where to
begin to help them, as much as you are certain you want to offer support. Feelings of helplessness and hopelessness are common first reactions to these
diagnoses, but they need not be permanent states: there are many ways you can help your affected family member or friend. Below you will find six ways you
can offer help and show support.
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You understand the importance of bringing more awareness to the realities mental illness – but what can you do? You don’t have a national television show, you’re not a famous athlete, you have no upcoming sold-out concerts – so, will anyone listen to you? The answer is easy: absolutely. You may not have an obvious audience of thousands, but knowledge breeds knowledge, and knowledge spreads. Things that may seem small can have large effects. Read our how-to guide below that has a few examples of do-it-yourself micro advocacy work that can have a big impact.
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