Some 88% of people with severe mental illness say they experience stigma.
Even though psychology and psychiatry have gripped the film industry, psychosis still gets a bad press They felt more fear and less desire to help.
People were less likely to want someone with schizophrenia as a housemate or co-worker than in 1990. A study of 10,000 people spanning the three decades to 2020 found that by nearly all measures, stigma towards the disorder had worsened. In fact, when it comes to schizophrenia, we seem to be getting less enlightened. While attitudes towards milder and more common mental health conditions such as anxiety, low mood, stress or burnout have improved, more serious disorders such as schizophrenia and psychosis trail far behind. Britain’s Time to Change campaign that ran for 14 years to 2021 was shown to have caused a “significant” drop in stigma.īut behind this good news story is something more important. People feel able to seek the help they need without risking their jobs, relationships or social lives. This slow medicalisation of our lives has attracted criticism but surveys show it seems to have had a positive effect: discrimination and negative reactions to mental illness are increasingly taboo. Therapy-speak infuses the language: triggering, boundaries, projection, self-care – stiff-upper-lipped Brits have expanded their vocabularies. Diagnoses have broadened – more of us see grief and stress as mental illnesses than we did a decade ago. We can also get anxious when it comes to things to do with money and not being able to meet our basic needs, like heating our home or buying food.”īritain is certainly more aware than it used to be.
“Lots of things can lead to feelings of anxiety, including exam pressures, relationships, starting a new job (or losing one) or other big life events.
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