Facts about Mental Health

The first steps of getting rid of the stigma around mental health and mental illness is to have all the facts and to be given all the facts.  I think the best ways of getting these messages across would be through PHSCE lessons, and through the messages being delivered by people who have had personal experience to talk from. As often, that is the most powerful and the ones where the message gets put across most strongly. Schools should do more to encourage and promote the learning of facts of mental health and to talk about the issue more openly and to dispel the misconceptions around mental illness.