Prospect Lives: Hope, friendship and prejudice
The Prospect Podcast
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Self Stigma in Psychiatry
Stigma is born from the fear of what is different and threatening. It can be seen in attitudes to people of different sex or gender, race,. disability and many other human conditions. Rebecca lawrence was admitted to a psychiatric hospital with severe depression as a young doctor. She believes stigma about her mental health affected her career. But she also thinks it could have been helped by 20 ten equality act.
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