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Stigma and mental illness

Stigma around mental illness creates a second wound: shame that keeps people isolated from help and from each other. When we recognize stigma as a learned story rather than truth, we begin to see mental suffering as what it truly is—a human experience deserving of compassion, not judgment.

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