{"id":3852,"date":"2018-06-13T09:45:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T09:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/?p=3852"},"modified":"2021-02-17T14:55:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T14:55:27","slug":"mental-health-letting-go-of-the-stigma-by-patrick-regan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/mental-health-letting-go-of-the-stigma-by-patrick-regan\/","title":{"rendered":"Letting go of the stigma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-excerpt\">\n    <p>\u201cYou\u2019ve got a migraine? Surely, it\u2019s mind over matter. Think happy thoughts and you\u2019ll be fine.\u201d \u201cBroken your leg? It\u2019s all in your head. Stop thinking so much and just shake it off!\u201d \u201cCancer? Could be worse \u2013 chin up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We would never talk to someone with a physical ailment like this, and yet anyone who has suffered with a mental health issue is likely to have been told it\u2019s all in their head, or that they should be able to \u201cget over it\u201d. Depression and anxiety aren\u2019t things we can pull ourselves together over. It\u2019s not a person\u2019s fault, and it\u2019s not something they can control.<\/p>\n<p>As a society we\u2019re more comfortable talking about and looking after our physical health than our mental health, but we haven\u2019t always known so much about caring for our bodies. Years ago, people didn\u2019t know that brushing your teeth keeps them from going rotten and falling out, or that washing daily is a good idea (the Anglo-Saxons thought the Vikings spent far too much time bathing because they did it once...<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Continue Reading<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Subscribe to one of our subscription packages<br \/>\nto get digital access to our articles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Unlimited digital access.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"headerbutton1\" href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/subscriptions\/\">Start a Subscription Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/login-member\/\">Login<\/a><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve got a migraine? Surely, it\u2019s mind over matter. Think happy thoughts and you\u2019ll be fine.\u201d \u201cBroken your leg? It\u2019s all in your head. Stop thinking so much and just shake it off!\u201d \u201cCancer? Could be worse \u2013 chin up.\u201d We would never talk to someone with a physical ailment like this, and yet anyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,23],"tags":[108,151,162,222,729,888,1139,1140,1141,1142,1143,1144,1145],"class_list":["post-3852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-free-content","category-portfolio","tag-anxiety","tag-depression","tag-xlp","tag-jesus","tag-mental-health","tag-patrick-regan","tag-black-dog-of-depression","tag-cancer","tag-migraine","tag-mind-over-matter","tag-opression","tag-physical-health","tag-stigma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3852"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7587,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions\/7587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}