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  1. Introduction
  2. Understanding LGBTI Mental Health
  3. What is minority stress?
  4. Intersectionality
  5. Inequality = Seeking support from the community
  6. Reducing stigma and discrimination
  7. Supporting Someone with Their Mental Health
  8. Recovery-based approaches to supporting each other
  9. The art of listening
  10. From the community, for community leaders and those who wish to support others…
  11. Looking After Others by Looking After Yourself
  12. The effects of supporting people: burnout and compassion fatigue
  13. The importance of boundaries
  14. Self-Care
  15. Trauma Informed Approaches and Suicide Prevention
  16. Trauma-inform your thinking
  17. Suicide prevention
  18. Mental Health Resources
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  1. Introduction
  2. Understanding LGBTI Mental Health
  3. What is minority stress?
  4. Intersectionality
  5. Inequality = Seeking support from the community
  6. Reducing stigma and discrimination
  7. Supporting Someone with Their Mental Health
  8. Recovery-based approaches to supporting each other
  9. The art of listening
  10. From the community, for community leaders and those who wish to support others…
  11. Looking After Others by Looking After Yourself
  12. The effects of supporting people: burnout and compassion fatigue
  13. The importance of boundaries
  14. Self-Care
  15. Trauma Informed Approaches and Suicide Prevention
  16. Trauma-inform your thinking
  17. Suicide prevention
  18. Mental Health Resources

Supporting People

Reducing stigma and discrimination

Being part of a community helps maintain good mental health, but that community needs to feel safe and open. One of the most important ways in which we can support people is to create a culture that it is ok to not be ok.

Speaking about mental health gives stigma less power as it normalises it.[19] See Me is a Scottish mental health charity that aims to end mental health stigma and discrimination.

They have a range of resources in PDF format designed to help community groups create the conditions that make speaking about mental health easier.

[Image with one figure holding up a sign saying “I’m not Okay”, while another responds with a sign saying “That’s Okay”]

Footnotes

  1. See Me, ‘Communities Can: A Toolkit For Tackling Mental Health Stigma’ (PDF). (Return to reference [19])

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