Broadcast date: 1/31/19
Mental health affects everyone in some manner, however, individuals often hesitate to reach out for support. Early experiences and messages surrounding mental health can frame someone’s understanding of their mental health as well as others’ mental health. This can affect both their likeliness to seek help and feel hopeful about recovery, but also how they perceive mental illness in our community. Less than one-third of adults with a mental health issue will get help. Data shows that fear of others’ perceptions, as well as fear of discrimination are the main reasons people don’t access mental health services. With community education we can remove the stigma, and people with mental illness will more readily seek treatment. Recovery is possible--Up to 90 percent of those who get help are able to significantly reduce symptoms and improve their quality of life.
Join Fred Munroe as he speaks with Frank Warren, Prevention & Outreach Division Manager for San Luis Obispo County Behavioral Health, Kirsten Vinther, Prevention Specialist and Health Educator with Campus Health and Wellbeing at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and Caroline Cerussi, Community Outreach Coordinator for Transitions-Mental Health Association (TMHA), as they discuss the effects of mental health stigma, as well as talk about the upcoming 2019 Journey of Hope, a community forum on living mentally well that takes place every Winter.
Central Coast Voices is sponsored by ACTION for Healthy Communities in collaboration with KCBX and made possible through underwriting by Joan Gellert-Sargen.
