'It doesn't have to be like this' - the stigma around mental health

Many suffer in silence because of the stigma associated with mental illness

Many suffer in silence because of the stigma associated with mental illness Source: Getty / fizkes/Getty Images/iStockphoto

SBS News In Depth
View Podcast Series

Get the SBS Audio app

Other ways to listen

Nearly a billion people around the world are diagnosed with a mental illness yet they and many more are suffering in silence because they fear the stigma associated with psychiatric disorders according to a global report. Researchers from 40 countries around the world have been looking into the issue

This story is part of SBS’s health and wellbeing initiative ‘Mind Your Health’ – visit
sbs.com.au/mindyourhealth
and there, you can listen to the Great Minds podcast and find out more about your wellbeing with stories and information, in more than 30 languages.
Share

Latest podcast episodes

President Donald Trump signing an executive order after announcing tariffs (AAP)
Labor supporter hands out how to vote cards (AAP)
COST OF LIVING SECRETS 2 EP 2 - HOUSING.jpg
COST OF LIVING SECRETS 2 EP 3 - FINANCIAL PLANNING.jpg

Recommended for you

A man in a dark coat and blue tie gestures while speaking outdoors.
Vegetables at a supermarket
Peter Dutton wearing a suit and gesturing with his hands. He is standing if front of a background with Lowy Institute written on it multiple times,
A composite image showing photo of Peter Dutton, the Australian flag, passport and a toy kangaroo
A stylised image featuring a man's portrait overlaid against a backdrop of people standing amidst rubble.
A person holding a petrol hose near the fuel flap of a car
Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers on a split red and green background with a bug white thumbs up and a thumbs down
People walking through a market in Finland.