Stigma: Mental Health

Why is mental health thought as a bad thing that people were cursed with? Or why is that when you think of mental health people, you think negatively, and that they are violent people? Or why do we think that mental health means that the person is not a human being? How do change the stigmas that downplay mental health? And how can we help society to think posiitively about mental health? How can we draw more funding for mental health? These are things I think about when I come across working in the Missouri Psychatric Center, or just coming across a patient in general that has a mental illness in the health care system. The factors of a patient that is mentally ill that is affected by stigma, can hinder them from seeking treatment because they either something is wrong with them, they downplay that they are ill, or they feel that medical treatment will treat them harsh once seeking care.