AlanJames Burns is drawing a parallel between sound and mental health through psychoacoustic sound artwork. These pieces, performed in pitch black caves around Ireland, are designed to recreate the human thought process and mental health overall. The entire experience mimics the way the mind works, and comments on many mental health struggles, such as hearing voices or having anxiety. Through depicting the mind with sound, Burns is breaking the stigma and spreading the word about mental health.
Upstage Stigma shouts, dances through mental health treatment
How two Stanford students turned mental health struggles into art
Beyond the Stigma: New program helps nurses struggling with addiction
Getting help for a substance use disorder can already be scary, but what if asking for help also meant losing your job and career? A program in New Hampshire is working to reduce the stigma of addiction for nurses by providing an innovative new program to assist nurses in accessing services without risking their license.
“Therapy Influencers” Are Using Instagram to Spread Mental Health Awareness
Maintaining A Healthy Relationship
NAMI provides concrete advice on how to maintain healthy relationships with family members who are experiencing behavioral health crises. Stigma feeds on isolation, silence, and assumptions. Learn how to help those you love by improving communication, expanding your personal support system, and examining your own preconceived ideas about mental health challenges.
How Harm Reduction is Saving Lives
Safe injection sites and reducing the stigma of addiction
Harvard Professor and Physician, Dr. Scott G. Weiner, compares substance use disorders to other chronic illness to highlight the unjust stigma placed on addiction. Dr. Weiner discusses safe injection sites and harm reduction as a possible way to reduce stigma and provide proper healthcare to those suffering.
Sex Workers and the Harm Reduction Movement - Part One
Experts on Sex Worker rights and Harm Reduction weigh in on the similarities between the two movements and how they can best support each other in achieving shared goals. While not addressing stigma directly, this article serves to highlight how stigma has left many people out of the harm reduction conversation and why this topic of the month includes articles on both substance use and sex work.
New Legislation - Mental Health Education in schools
When school health curriculum fails to address behavioral health, it further contributes to the feeling that a student’s mental health is not as important as their physical health. This article looks at new legislation proposals that would require mental health to be included in the larger health curriculum. This is vital in reducing stigma for students who wish to discuss their emotional well-being or seek treatment, and ensuring that they have a right to health without restrictions or shame.