How You Can Combat Stigma:

1. Share your experience with mental illness. Your story can convey to others that having a mental illness is nothing to be embarrassed about.

2. Help people with mental illness reenter society. Support their efforts to obtain housing and jobs.

3. Respond to false statements about mental illness or people with mental illnesses. Many people have wrong and damaging ideas on the subject. Accurate facts and information may help change both their ideas and actions.

For More Information:

Contact your local Mental Health Association, community mental health center, or for additional resources, please call 1-800-969-NMHA.

NMHA offers additional pamphlets on a variety of mental health topics. For more information or to order multiple copies of pamphlets, please call 1-800-969-NMHA

Source: Mental Health America

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