Stigma and Discrimination
Rethink Mental Illness campaigns to challenge the stigma and discrimination faced by people who experience mental illness.
What issues are we campaigning on?
Rethink Mental Illness is working to change people's attitudes to severe mental illness through Time to Change, an anti-stigma programme reaching millions of people.
Welfare Reform and Benefits Rethink Mental Illness wants a fair deal for people affected by severe mental illness.
Employment: Find out about reasonable adjustments for people with mental illness.
We're challenging the blanket ban stopping people who recieve treatment for a mental illness from taking part in Jury Service.
Unhappy Birthday Schizophrenia
It's 100 years since the term schizophrenia was first coined but people who have it are still getting a raw deal.
Support our five birthday wishes and send our e-card to David Cameron now.
I wish, in the next ten years, people with schizophrenia...
1) will not be dying, on average, 20 years younger than everyone else
2) will have the same access to treatment as people with physical illness
3) will not face stigma and discrimination just because they are ill
4) will not be silenced and sidelined, but they and their families will have their voice heard
5) will be treated with compassion not suspicion
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