PostSecrets.

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.

Mental health matters. Imagine a world without the stigma.

Words like ‘crazy, ‘nutcase’, ’lunatic’, ‘psycho’, and ‘cuckoo’ belittle and contribute to the stigma that already surrounds people with mental health problems. Questioning what you hear using the STOP acronym is one way to keep the stigma around mental disorders in check. Ask yourself, does what I’m hearing:

                  Stereotype people with mental disorders?

       Trivialize or belittle the person with the disorder or the illness itself?

       Offend the person with a mental disorder by insulting them?

       Patronize the person treating them with mental disorders as if they 

                  aren’t as good as others.

                   

44 percent of Canadians say they've coped with a mental health problem, lets raise awareness together!

Did you know that depression has such a stigma attached to it that 7 in 10 people would find it difficult to discuss the condition with their doctor?

MYTH: All people who have depression appear to be sad. Depression comes in many other ways some people have chronic anger, worry, panic or anxiety & many hide their feelings of despair and smile to mask their pain.