When the word of disability strikes the ears of a human living and breathing in social settings, the mind gets alerted, and the red caution signs of stigmas that are attached with the word start acting up, causing the activation of biases. Such biases of its kind act up as sources that become barriers to mental health treatment. Stigmas are basically those social attitudes that are unfair and negatively attached to a group or a person mostly due to some difference in the way they exist. They can either be people with distinct cultural or religious beliefs or ways of living, such as those with some kind of health condition such as a mental disability.

Therefore, the stigma revolving around mental health is when the people engulfed in mental disorders are disapproved by society or its people for existing with some sort of mental illness or for seeking help. This pressure can be induced by either friend, co-workers, family, or the no-bodies of the society shoving away the person in the pits of mental health barriers ranging from physical barriers to psychological obstacles. It indeed is a fact that often the mental disorders are diagnosed when they impair functioning of the intellectual and physical kind at some level of extreme, but the people that are facing the issue are often treated as objects that must be dealt with care. The patients are reported to complain to their therapists that they feel as if they have been stamped with the fragile sticker on their foreheads which causes people around them always to take steps as light feathers. They are given so many looks of sympathy when in reality, they need empathy. The caretakers, significant others, or the society at a general level believe that such people are in total need of care and have become dependent on them, which often isn’t the case. Particular types of mental disability and severity level such as suicidal tendencies in depression and schizophrenia, needs adequate care and customized mental disability care.

After being diagnosed with a condition, people around must adopt the notion of “differently-abled” as it helps in empowering the person despite the diagnosis. Be it an intellectual disability, mental disability, physical disability, or disability you aren’t clear or aware about, acknowledging its presence and then seeing that person beyond that label is the first step to break the shackles of all the associated stigmas attached with mental health disability. If you find yourself unable to see a co-worker or a family member beyond their diagnosis, then join the community and learn as to how differences of such grievances can be tamed.