Abstract
In a lecture she gave last June, Heather Stuart spoke about a colleague who had breast cancer treatment and woke up in a hospital room filled with flowers and cards and visitors, thrilled with the support. Sometime later, this woman was hospitalized for depression. She woke up sad and alone in an empty room. “This is what stigma is and what stigma does,” said Stuart, the Bell Canada mental health and anti-stigma research chair at Queen’s University and senior consultant to the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC). “The most disturbing part is that my colleague is a psychiatrist and works in a mental health facility. You would think that mental health professionals would be more understanding.”
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