Help tackle mental health stigma
You can make a difference in ensuring that mental health issues are better understood.
Mental health and stigma - how you can make a difference:
One in four people will be affected by mental health issues at some point in their lives. Even if you do not experience mental health problems personally, it is likely that one of your family members, friends, colleagues or neighbours will.
This means that these issues impact everyone and we all have a role to play in helping to remove the stigma associated with mental health problems.
Headline, the national media monitoring programme, works to promote responsible and accurate coverage of mental health and suicide in the media. You can support Headline’s work and help tackle stigma by speaking up about how mental health problems are portrayed by the media.
The media has a key role to play in helping to challenge the myths and misconceptions that surround mental health issues and promoting greater awareness of mental health problems. By encouraging positive coverage of mental health issues and by challenging negative coverage, we can help reduce the fear and misunderstanding of mental heath issues.
- If you want to become involved in tackling stigma, sign up for Headline’s media alerts.
- You can alert Headline of media coverage on mental health or suicide that you feel is particularly negative or positive. Find out more here.
- You can contact the media directly to praise good coverage of mental health or suicide, or to inform them when the coverage is negative or stigmatising. Find out more here as well as contact details for the media.
About Headline
Headline is Ireland's national media monitoring programme, working to promote responsible and accurate coverage of mental health and suicide related issues within the Irish media.
Headline aims to highlight mental health issues and address the stigma attached to emotional distress, suicidal behaviour and mental illness through the promotion of responsible media coverage.
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