Mental-health stigma — where it comes from, what shifts it.
4 articles tagged “Stigma”
Social media has made it easier than ever to find a name for what you're feeling — and sometimes that recognition is genuinely useful. But a symptom list isn't a diagnosis, and this post looks at what self-diagnosis gets right, where it goes wrong, and what to do instead.
The classic picture of depression — someone crying, someone visibly withdrawn — is real but incomplete. A lot of depression looks like a functional person who quietly stopped enjoying things a few months ago. Here's what the less-obvious version tends to look like, in yourself and the people around you.
This piece looks at the pattern where depression, anxiety, and trauma get styled as identity or aesthetic on social platforms — why that pattern is different from awareness-raising, why clinicians worry about its effect on help-seeking, and how to tell useful mental-health content from the harmful version.
The gap between what teenagers are actually going through and what adults think is going on is usually wider than either side realizes. This piece is a translation — six things teenagers consistently wish the adults in their life understood, and what those things sound like when a teen tries to say them out loud.