3. Definitions
Stigma
“Stigma is a social process,
experienced or anticipated,
characterized by exclusion,
rejection, blame or devaluation,
that results from experience,
perception, or reasonable
anticipation of an adverse
social judgment about a person
or group.”
Self-Stigma
“your life is over”
“you’ll never amount to
anything now”
“you’ll never have friends”
“you may as well just give
up”
4. Client Empowerment Council
– Joined the CEC in 2010
– Graduated from college in 2012
– Became CEC Secretary
– Became Co-Chair in May 2012
– Chair in June 2012
6. History with Self-Stigma
• Made to feel worthless, useless, meaningless,
incompetent, ugly
• As an adult, I still have these same feelings,
thoughts
• As Chair, I fight against the messages and
tapes because I know they’re not true
7. Volunteering helps combat Selfstigma
• Service provides hope, courage, strength
• Do service for community org and know it’s
value. When it comes to combating self-stigma
• Helping others helps me to keep on keeping on.
• Overcoming self-stigma, one step at a time.
11. • Public Stigma is the reaction that the general
population has to people with mental illness
• Self-Stigma is the prejudice which people with
mental illness turn against themselves
12. No one can make you feel inferior
without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
20. “Just a little bit helps”
Richard Cottingham
Representative for Mood & Anxiety Program and
Ottawa Operational Stress Injury Clinic
And
CEC Treasurer