Treatments for depression have improved, and their availability has markedly increased
since the 1980s. Mysteriously the general population prevalence of depression has not …

BackgroundMental disorders create high individual and societal costs and burden, partly
because help-seeking is often delayed or completely avoided. Stigma related to mental …

Importance Stigma, the prejudice and discrimination attached to mental illness, has been
persistent, interfering with help-seeking, recovery, treatment resources, workforce …

In the past decade, there have been extensive efforts in the Western world to raise public
awareness about mental health problems, with the goal of reducing or preventing these …

Suicide is preventable. Nevertheless, each year 800,000 people die of suicide in the world.
While there is evidence indicating that suicide rates de‐crease during times of crises, they …

Stigma is a well-documented barrier to health seeking behavior, engagement in care and
adherence to treatment across a range of health conditions globally. In order to halt the …

Present day neuroscience places the brain at the centre of study. But what if researchers
viewed the brain not as the foundation of life, rather as a mediating organ? Ecology of the …

Depression is widely acknowledged to be a heterogeneous entity, and the need to further
characterize the individual patient who has received this diagnosis in order to personalize …

Treatments have been developed and tested to successfully reduce the symptoms and
disabilities of many mental illnesses. Unfortunately, people distressed by these illnesses …

Background There is a rich literature on the nature of mental health-related stigma and the
processes by which it severely affects the life chances of people with mental health …