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We need to talk about stigma within the mental health system

‘There’s nothing wrong with you; stop playing games; no one believes you.’

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I’ve experienced mental health problems for the past 24 years, and in that time the stigma I have experienced has come, not so much from outside the system as within it. And yet we don’t seem to be having conversations about this issue in the mainstream media.