{"id":312,"date":"2025-04-22T13:46:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T13:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sacredjourneytherapy.com\/bloggworks\/?p=312"},"modified":"2025-06-24T13:48:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T13:48:47","slug":"stigma-remains-a-barrier-to-mental-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sacredjourneytherapy.com\/bloggworks\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"Stigma remains a barrier to mental health care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite growing awareness around mental health, many people continue to mask their struggles due to fear of judgment, discrimination, or social exclusion. In fact, 60% of people with a mental health problem or illness won\u2019t seek help for fear of being labelled.<a id=\"_ftnref1\" href=\"https:\/\/cmha.ca\/news\/stigma-remains-a-barrier-to-mental-health-care-with-60-of-people-not-seeking-help-for-fear-of-being-labelled\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> This Mental Health Week (May 5-11, 2025), the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) is unmasking mental health, so more people get the support they need, when they need it.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/cmha.ca\/news\/stigma-remains-a-barrier-to-mental-health-care-with-60-of-people-not-seeking-help-for-fear-of-being-labelled\/\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite growing awareness around mental health, many people continue to mask their struggles due to fear of judgment, discrimination, or social exclusion. In fact, 60% of people with a mental health problem or illness won\u2019t seek help for fear of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sacredjourneytherapy.com\/bloggworks\/?p=312\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacredjourneytherapy.com\/bloggworks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacredjourneytherapy.com\/bloggworks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacredjourneytherapy.com\/bloggworks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacredjourneytherapy.com\/bloggworks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacredjourneytherapy.com\/bloggworks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sacredjourneytherapy.com\/bloggworks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/sacredjourneytherapy.com\/bloggworks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacredjourneytherapy.com\/bloggworks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacredjourneytherapy.com\/bloggworks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacredjourneytherapy.com\/bloggworks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}