Participate in the Scottish Mental Illness Stigma Survey
- Area of Work: The ALLIANCE
- Type: News Item
- Published: 27th January 2022
The survey seeks to understand mental health stigma and discrimination to create real change in Scotland.
The Mental Health Foundation, See Me and Glasgow Caledonian University are undertaking a ground breaking research project to better understand how people living with severe, complex and/or enduring mental illnesses experience stigma and discrimination.
The Scottish Mental Illness Stigma Survey is a first-of-its-kind piece of research for Scotland, which will look to address some of the most pervasive and severe stigma and discrimination that people in Scotland with mental health illnesses face.
They want to speak to people who have experienced longer term, enduring mental illnesses which have seriously impacted on their lives to find out:
- What stigma and discrimination people have experienced and how often
- Where in their lives people have experienced it and to what extent
- What impact these experiences have had on their lives and behaviours
- How people experience self-stigma
- What needs to change to improve the lives of people experiencing complex mental illnesses
Who can take part?
People aged 18 and over, based in Scotland, who within the last years have experienced a severe, complex and/or enduring mental health illness, or illnesses, including:
- Schizophrenia or other primary psychotic disorder
- Bipolar or related disorder
- Obsessive-compulsive or related disorder
- Disorder specifically associated with stress (e.g. post traumatic stress disorder)
- Dissociative disorder
- Feeding or eating disorder
- Personality disorder
- Severe and/or treatment-resistant depressive disorder
- Severe and/or treatment-resistant anxiety or fear-related disorder
The survey invites both people who have received a formal diagnosis, as well as those who have not been diagnosed formally but believe they may be experiencing one or more of these mental illnesses, to participate.
Find out more and how to take part (this link will take you away from our website).
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