by justinehardy | Jun 28, 2014 | Blog
Prudes, Debauched or Both? It doesn’t really matter where you are, whether swathed from tip to toe amidst a highly conservative crowd, or in a beach and not-very-much bikini setting, there are always going to be certain words that almost everyone struggles with....
by justinehardy | Jun 23, 2014 | Blog
The Stigma of Stigma It is a sort of onomatopoeia—stigma. It sounds harsh, a cruel brand. Stigmata: a mark of disgrace or, in medical terms, a visible sign or characteristic of a disease, such as a mark on the skin, a rash or lesion. Except that mental illness...
by justinehardy | Jun 9, 2014 | Blog
On Mental Health and Stigma The Madness of StigmasStigmas have the same nature as gas, or fear, they fill whatever space is made available to them. Almost everything about mental health still has a huge pink elephant of a stigma going on. I don’t care how we...
