Behavioral Health Stigma

Although, our nation has come a significant way in addressing behavioral health, the stigma associated with it is very real and needs to be openly addressed, questioned and eliminated. We think of individuals with mental disorders as some type of “otherness” (carrying some type of contagious disease), and we constantly rejected them. The U.S. healthcare system has also “turned a blind eye” to those with mental health needs. There are few insurance plans that offer coverage for those who need treatment for their minds as well as their physical body.