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FREE Mental Health Micro Guide #4
How does stigma affect mental health?
Ben Slater
July 27, 2024
Let’s get 1 million people trained by 2035
In this Mental Health Micro guide:
Welcome!
Thank you for joining us. It’s great that you’re here!
This issue is about stigma which has a huge impact on this sector.
There is also an exclusive offer for subscribers worth over £169 at the end of this edition.
The mission.
As always we are looking to provide resources that:
are safe
are accessible
could lift a life
could save a life
to 1 million people by 2035.
The community.
As always, get in touch. Ask questions. Push. Nudge. Suggest.
Let’s “know better, do better”. Together.
The guide.
There are 4 sections weekly:
The Question
The Time-Saver
The Checklist
The Pause Portal (A Beautiful Self-Care Tool)
Use them. Share them. Air them.
Right. Let’s get into stigma.
The Question: How does stigma affect mental health?
It slows recovery
and stops people asking for help…
Yet very few people know it even exists…
So here’s a 6 minute video guide to the effects of stigma...
…and I do talk about a particularly chilling childhood knitwear incident (!)…
(fwd is aiming to have all video content accompanied with a descriptive transcript so that we can benefit from the wisdom and character of all who engage. The descriptive transcript can be found under the video in Youtube.)
The Time-Saver: Stigma
Save time with this One Click Wonder, all the key resources in one place - just one click away.
Open and save your own pdf version to keep and to share around the office - link under the image.
This is part of a series. Interested in versions you can print without emptying the printer cartridge? Or interested in versions with your company logo on? Get in touch.
The Checklist: cutting through stigma
Being able to engage with someone
without triggering stigma is a skill worth learning.
Here’s a summary from the video above.
Stage | Key phrase | Example |
|---|---|---|
Notice | “I’ve noticed that…” | "I've noticed that you talk in a more combative way when discussing this project.” |
Validate | “It’s understandable that…” | "It's understandable that passions are running high for this key piece of work." |
Open Ask | “Tell me about…” or “Tell me more…” | "Tell me about how the project is going for you..." |
Or - simple explicit non-threatening offer | “If you need someone to listen, I’m right over there.” | — |
If we can talk without triggering stigma, we can help accelerate recovery…
The Pause Portal: Self-Care Gratitude Guide
This Pause Portal is dedicated to David & Clare Hieatt and is filmed just near them at Cenarth Falls.
I am grateful to them for showing a different way with manufacture, commerce, scaling and community.
Check out Hiut Denim Co. and the Do Lectures for a flavour.
The gorge at Cenarth is rare.
It was created by glacial meltwater which formed the mudstones, siltstones and sandstones that line the gorge in clear layers.
The water is peaty and slow for most of this stretch and then thunders and churns white through multiple channels below the 13th century water mill.
The tail end of a storm has passed through leaving only gusts and a mist of spent rain.
Dippers and grey wagtails bob at the water's edge and in the long thin pools that form between rock layers.
A kingfisher streaks from perch to perch.
Salmon will leap up here come the autumn.
Here is 90 seconds of that magic with a gratitude exercise.
Steady your breathing, noticing each breath.
Notice the thunder and spray of the water.
And the stillness of the water mill.
Who are you grateful for?
Whether they do things that are hard to ignore
or act in stillness and quiet,
say out loud or note in your mind why you are grateful for them,
saying thank you for each small aspect of them that makes life better for you.
Try it and see what difference it makes to you.
(fwd is aiming to have all video content accompanied with a descriptive transcript so that we can benefit from the wisdom and character of all who engage. The descriptive transcript can be found under the video in Youtube.)
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That’s all for this week.
Until next week, let’s keep moving fwd…
