Summary A Call for Change addresses the urgent need to integrate stigma awareness programs into healthcare settings within the UK. This post concludes this recent series on discrimination, which I believe has been a factor in the 11-year delay, that I have faced getting a diagnosis and treatment for my…
Summary On Mental Health Discrimination #2 discusses discrimination that I experienced at an NHS Trust in Scotland, within the context of The Equality Act, 2010, which is a law that protects a variety of people from discrimination. This blog post focuses on the aspects of The Equality Act, which speak…
Summary ‘There are different ways you can experience discrimination including: direct discrimination: if you’re treated worse than others because of your mental health problem and indirect discrimination: if a person or organisation has arrangements in place that put you at an unfair disadvantage. Mental Health Discrimination also includes if you’re…