stigma

Barbie’s diabetes doll sparked hope, but the backlash showed Aussies with chronic illness still face deep stigma and misunderstanding.

Jo Stone didn’t expect a story about her husband’s job search after taking a break to care for kids to reach more than 1.3 million people. 

A new agency has launched this week, dedicated to diversifying the voices and talent platformed on speaking circuits. 

‘Thriving’ is a timely performance poem film as women and girls in Australia living with HIV make up 12 per cent of the population.

Check out this extract from Penny Moodie’s new book, The Joy Thief. Let’s unpack OCD. What is it? What are the stigmas and common misunderstandings.

A new study has found that four out of every ten workers who reported poor mental health in the past 12 months did not talk about it at work. 

It’s hard to contemplate what was going through Victorian Liberal MP Wendy Lovell’s brain when she uttered the words she did.

When we accept the reality of being human and recognize the ignorance associated with mental illness stigma, we free ourselves to be OK with not being OK.

“Period poverty is a real issue that is under-researched,” Dr Ruth Knight from QUT Business says of a new study of the issue in schools.

Until we make structural changes we will continue to see unacceptably high rates of anxiety, depression and burnout in doctors.

Jennie Hill’s beloved brother committed suicide and it’s given her cause to contemplate whether silence is actually a mistake that compounds the stigma.