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    The Stigma of Mental Illness

    Activity:
    • What does the word “stigma” mean?
    • What are some negative things you have heard about people with mental illness?
    • What are some positive things you have heard about mental illness?
    • Why do you think people with mental illness are stigmatized?
    • Can you think of any other health conditions or social issues that have been
    stigmatized throughout history.
    • What kinds of factors have contributed to changing public attitudes around some of
    this conditions or issues?
    • What do you think influences perceptions about mental illness?
    • How do you think stigma affects the lives of people with mental illness?

    Identify if it is a Myth (False) or Reality (True) and justify your answer.


    1. One person in every 100 persons develops schizophrenia.
    2. A person who has one or both parents with mental illness is more likely to develop
    mental illness.
    3. Mental illness is contagious.
    4. Mental illness tends to begin during adolescence.
    5. Poor Parenting causes schizophrenia.
    6. Illegal drug use causes mental illness.
    7. Mental illness can be cured with willpower.
    8. People with mental illness never get better.
    9. . People with mental illness tend to be violent.
    10. . All homeless people are mentally ill.
    11. Developmental disabilities are a form of mental illness.
    12. . Poor people are more likely to have mental illness than those who are not.
    13. People should work out their own mental illness.
    14. Once you have a mental illness, you usually have it for life.
    15. Females are more likely to have mental illness than males.
    16. Medicines should never be used to treat a mental illness.
    17. You can tell by looking at someone whether they have a mental illness.
    18. People with a mental illness are generally shy and quiet.
    19. Mental illness can happen to anybody.

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