Stigma Fighting 2012

The following video statements were created as part of the MHE & YOU (Mental Health Experienced & Years of Understanding) Advisory Council's campaign to recognize May as Mental Health Awareness Month in 2012.

Stigma Fighting Statement 1
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from the website for "Vincent van Gogh: The Letters",1889, in a letter to his brother Theo at http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let760/letter.html

Stigma Fighting Statement 2
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from the website for "Mind The Stigma...talking openly about mental illness."

Stigma Fighting Statement 3
This Stigma Fighting Statement came from the now-closed Time to Change social movement website

Stigma Fighting Statement 4
This Stigma Fighting Statement came from the now-closed Time to Change social movement website

Stigma Fighting Statement 5
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from the website for "Mind The Stigma...talking openly about mental illness."

Stigma Fighting Statement 6
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from Time to Change...Let's End Mental Health Discrimination

Stigma Fighting Statement 7
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from the National Alliance on Mental Illness

Stigma Fighting Statement 8
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from Time to Change...Let's End Mental Health Discrimination

Stigma Fighting Statement 9
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Results from the 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Mental Health Findings, NSDUH Series H-42, HHS Publication No. (SMA) 11-4667. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2012

Stigma Fighting Statement 10
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from  Mind the Stigma...talking openly about mental illness

Stigma Fighting Statement 11
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from Mind The Stigma...talking openly about mental illness

Stigma Fighting Statement 12
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from Wheaton, A. G., Perry, G. S., Chapman, D. P., & Croft, J. B. (2012). Sleep Disordered Breathing and Depression among U.S. Adults: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2005-2008. SLEEP, 35(4) 461-7

Stigma Fighting Statement 13
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Results from the 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Mental Health Findings, NSDUH Series H-42, HHS Publication No. (SMA) 11-4667. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2012.

Stigma Fighting Statement 14
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from Time to Change...Let's End Mental Health Discrimination

Stigma Fighting Statement 15
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from Mind The Stigma...talking openly about mental illness

Stigma Fighting Statement 16
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from Wang, P. S., Berglund, P., Olfson, M., Pincus, H. A., Wells, K. B., & Kessler, R. C. (2005). Failure and delay in initial treatment contact after the first onset of mental disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. Archives of General Psychiatry, 62(6) 603-13

Stigma Fighting Statement 17
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General. Rockville, Md., U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services, 1999, pp. 408-409, 411. 

Stigma Fighting Statement 18
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from Bring Change 2 Mind

Stigma Fighting Statement 19
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from Mind The Stigma...talking openly about mental illness

Stigma Fighting Statement 20
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health: Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America. Final Report. DHHS Pub. No. SMA-03-3832. Rockville, MD: 2003.

Stigma Fighting Statement 21
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from Stop Bullying

Stigma Fighting Statement 22
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from Mind The Stigma...talking openly about mental illness

Stigma Fighting Statement 23
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from the National Alliance on Mental Illness

Stigma Fighting Statement 24
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from Stuart, H. (2003). Violence and mental illness: an overview. World Psychiatry: Official Journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), 2(2), 121-4.

Stigma Fighting Statement 25
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from Time to Change...Let's End Mental Health Discrimination

Stigma Fighting Statement 26
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from the U.S. Department of Education. Twenty-third annual report to Congress on the implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Act. Washington, D.C., 2006.

Stigma Fighting Statement 27
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from the World Health Organization's Mental Health Atlas 2012

Stigma Fighting Statement 28
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Stigma Fighting Statement 29
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors Medical Directors Council

Stigma Fighting Statement 30
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from the World Health Organization's Mental Health Atlas 2012 

Stigma Fighting Statement 31
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from Mind The Stigma...talking openly about mental illness

Bonus Statements:

Stigma Fighting Statement Bonus 1
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from Time to Change...Let's End Mental Health Discrimination

Stigma Fighting Statement Bonus 2
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from the National Alliance on Mental Illness 

Stigma Fighting Statement Bonus 3
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Stigma Fighting Statement Bonus 4
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from Steadman HJ, Osher F, Robbins PC, Case B & Samuels S. (2009). Prevalence of Serious Mental Illness Among Jail Inmates. Psychiatric Services 60:761-765

Stigma Fighting Statement Final
This Stigma Fighting Statement comes from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2006). Results from the 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: National Findings (Office of Applied Studies, NSDUH Series H-30, DHHS Publication No. SMA 06-4194). Rockville, MD