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Being visibly invisible: The debate of stigma and invisible vs visible illnesses

Welcome to the seventeenth day of the National Health Blog Post Month Challenge hosted by WEGO Health.  Every day during the month of November I will be writing a new blog post related to health and living with a chronic illness based on given prompts provided by WEGO Health. Today's post reads: Invisible Illness versus Visible Illness: What are some stigmas you have experienced with your invisible OR visible illnesses that have made you feel invisible?  How have you tackled them? Etymologically the word 'stigma' derives...

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NHBPM Day Twenty-One: Mental Health – Why the Stigma?

Welcome to another post of the WEGO Health 'National Health Blog Post Month'!!  It's Day 21 so, the end is nearly nigh!  I hope you are all enjoying the posts so far.  Ready for the next one? Today, I have chosen the prompt asking to write about mental health. As you may now already know, I have a BSC in Psychology, and currently volunteer for a local Mental Health Charity, so this topic and area is of importance to me.  I suppose,...

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