Mental health stigma

Mental health is a topic that heavily features in our everyday lives but is hardly discussed. A lot of our favourite sources of entertainment from film to TV shows feature characters with a mental illness. Even with mental illness being so seemingly visible in society, there’s still a lot of misconceptions around it. I held a twitter chat with the Africa Mental Health Foundation to clarify on some of the misconceptions surrounding mental health, as well as a way to get the conversation going.

I’ve curated some of the tweets and you can read them below.

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Mental health is a topic that heavily features in our everyday lives but is hardly discussed. A lot of our favourite sources of entertainment from film to TV shows feature characters with a mental illness. Even with mental illness being so seemingly visible in society, there's still a lot...