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Stigma, the prejudice and discrimination attached to mental illness, has been persistent, interfering with help-seeking, recovery, treatment resources, workforce development, and societal productivity in individuals with mental illness.
Stigma refers to negative attitudes, beliefs, and stereotypes people may hold towards those who experience mental health conditions. Stigma can prevent or delay people from seeking care or cause them to discontinue treatment. We can all play a part in helping to reduce mental health stigma.
It’s important to measure how common mental illness is, so we can understand its physical, social and financial impact — and so we can show that no one is alone. These numbers are also powerful tools for raising public awareness, stigma-busting and advocating for better health care.
A 2022 national poll from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) found that mental health stigma is still a major challenge in the workplace. About half (48%) of workers say they can discuss mental health openly and honestly with their supervisor, down from 56% in 2021 and 62% in 2020.
Measures included beliefs about underlying causes (attributions), perceptions of likely violence (danger to others), and rejection (desire for social distance). Results: Of the 4129 individuals interviewed in the surveys, 2255 were women (54.6%); mean (SD) age was 44.6 (16.9) years.
In 2021-2022, 23% of adults experienced a mental illness in the past year, equivalent to nearly 60 million Americans. More than 5% of the U.S. adult population (12.8 million people) reported experiencing serious thoughts of suicide.
Worldwide, more than 70% of young people and adults with mental illness do not receive any mental health treatment from health care staff. 1 The difference between true prevalence and treated prevalence can be called the treatment gap. 2 This article describes the roles that stigma and discrimination contribute to the treatment gap 3,4 and asses...