Language considerations - media guidelines

Issues to consider when choosing language to describe mental illness or mental health services.
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The language you use can stigmatise people living with a mental illness and reinforce unhelpful stereotypes, as well as present inaccuracies about mental illness or mental health services.

“Writing about mental illness in all its richness, and with all its challenges, need not cause stigma. Rather it provides us with a rare chance to bring about meaningful social change alongside a golden opportunity to better journalism.”

Andre Picard, International health journalist

Mental Health Foundation
Mental Health Foundation
Mental Health Foundation
Mental Health Foundation