It was a truly powerful display seeing so many people normalizing mental health and mental health treatment on such a large scale. With Covid-19, and the added mental health strain on frontline providers, problems are only compounding and untreated problems worsening. She feels healthcare professionals inadvertently perpetuate bias and their internalized and externalized mental health stigmas are transferred to patients. Or, maybe they denigrate psychiatrists and psychiatric treatment, and regularly do not screen or refer patients for mental health care. Ending the stigma of mental health in healthcare might help end it more broadly, especially in how health care is practiced.

Source: Forbes July 13, 2020 21:10 UTC