Can we have a forum to discuss stigma related to mental health?

I've been really affected by it recently and need a place to talk about it. It seems to be an important/impactful/ serious/widespread issue to warrant its own forum.

Thanks!

[88Butterfly88]

I like this idea.

[rdgrad15]

Originally Posted by Rayne_

Can we have a forum to discuss stigma related to mental health?

I've been really affected by it recently and need a place to talk about it. It seems to be an important/impactful/ serious/widespread issue to warrant its own forum.

Thanks!

Love that idea!

nice idea.
it's perhaps the biggist issue facing mental health sufferers everyone has gone (or continues) to go through it

[Taylor27]

Very nice idea

It's an important topic but I think we need to have a more general forums to include THIS kind of topic, too.
I once offered to open an existential kind of forum, to which I got an answer by DocJohn that a chat group can be made for it.
Not my favorite option, but if we can create a collection of ideas such as mine and this one, then we can come up with an actual suitable forum

[MoxieDoxie]

No I think the forum should be JUST for stigma.

[tecomsin]

Originally Posted by MoxieDoxie

No I think the forum should be JUST for stigma.

there could be a new forum and also more discussion of how stigma operates in our lives in the other forums. I get the feeling there's a stigma to even talk about stigma.

[DocJohn]

Have folks tried starting discussions in the general mental health forum about stigma? How have those threads gone?

Originally Posted by MoxieDoxie

No I think the forum should be JUST for stigma.

Stigma is a fragment of the overview on our lives, which includes mental health itself and whatever is beyond it. A forum is a too of a large setting for just stigma on its own

Interestingly, not having a forum on this topic seems like sweeping it under the rug, which mirrors how this topic is often navigated elsewhere.

I've talked about it through other threads, and no one seemed to be interested.

To be honest, I'm surprised a forum like this doesn't have this forum topic already. I'm not a big contributer here, so I don't have that much of a stake in this I suppose. (oh well). At the same time, I'm not one to accept the status quo when it can be changed for the better.

I’d love to have a discussion about it, Rayne. Though keep in mind I have a pessimistic view on it

[tecomsin]

Vibrating Obsidian has posted a new thread in 'other mental health ...'
to discuss stigma here:
https://forums.psychcentral.com/othe...iscussion.html

Originally Posted by tecomsin

Vibrating Obsidian has posted a new thread in 'other mental health ...'
to discuss stigma here:
https://forums.psychcentral.com/othe...iscussion.html

Was this thread started as some kind of joke or to mock me? I dont understand why that thread was started when everyone responding seemed to dismiss this issue and then not even respond to my post when I tried to contribute. I could understand the responses if people's identities are intertwined with "mental illness", but I can't be the judge of that.

Also, most posts on the 'other' forum are moved somewhere else, it diminishes the importance of this topic.

This whole experience was awful, left such a bad taste in my mouth, i don't think I can ever come here for support again.

[tecomsin]

Originally Posted by Rayne_

Was this thread started as some kind of joke or to mock me? I dont understand why that thread was started when everyone responding seemed to dismiss this issue and then not even respond to my post when I tried to contribute. I could understand the responses if people's identities are intertwined with "mental illness", but I can't be the judge of that.

Also, most posts on the 'other' forum are moved somewhere else, it diminishes the importance of this topic.

This whole experience was awful, left such a bad taste in my mouth, i don't think I can ever come here for support again.

I was posting in the other thread and posted a link here in order to support your interest in the stigma of mental health. sometimes it is hard to know what to say without making things worse which is apparently what happened.

Originally Posted by Rayne_

Was this thread started as some kind of joke or to mock me? I dont understand why that thread was started when everyone responding seemed to dismiss this issue and then not even respond to my post when I tried to contribute. I could understand the responses if people's identities are intertwined with "mental illness", but I can't be the judge of that.

Also, most posts on the 'other' forum are moved somewhere else, it diminishes the importance of this topic.

This whole experience was awful, left such a bad taste in my mouth, i don't think I can ever come here for support again.

I opened it because of a personal drive to get this topic going and moving, nothing personal.
We can also work on creating a forum for stigma, but I still think such forum would require other topics in order to be opened, such as news, environmental global and existential views on mental illnesses. Just my throwaway

[DocJohn]

This is the feedback forum, so it wouldn't be appropriate to start a thread actually discussing mental illness stigma in this forum. So I believe that thread was starting to begin a conversation of stigma, and to see where it goes. You're welcomed to contribute to it.

Threads that don't belong in the "Other mental health discussion" forum are moved out of that forum to the forum where they better fit. For whatever reasons, a lot of people post there instead of in the appropriate sub-forum, like psychotherapy, or personality, or movie talk forum, etc. We regularly "house clean" in there to get topics to their correct forum. Mental health stigma discussion has no other place to go, so it will remain in that forum.

Best,
DocJohn

[tecomsin]

Stigma of any kind is hard topic to discuss and find agreement about. I find it hard sometimes to convey my basic ideas and feelings on the subject so I just give up. It is a frustrating topic and one that has been part of mental illness for as long as there have been 'mentally ill' people.