stigma Archives - Empoword Journalism https://www.empowordjournalism.com/tag/stigma/ Led by women. Uniting and empowering journalists across the globe. Wed, 11 Jun 2025 11:24:45 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Scleroderma Awareness Month: Understanding the Rare and Fatal Disease https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/scleroderma-awareness-month-understanding-the-rare-and-fatal-disease-2/ https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/scleroderma-awareness-month-understanding-the-rare-and-fatal-disease-2/#respond Fri, 09 Jun 2023 12:57:33 +0000 https://www.empowordjournalism.com/?p=40716 Scleroderma is a disease that can be both disabling and fatal, and yet this rare disorder often goes unrecognised as it affects as little as 19,000 people in the UK. Throughout June, sufferers are encouraged to share their stories, to help increase our collective understanding and highlight the symptoms to look out for.

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]]> https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/scleroderma-awareness-month-understanding-the-rare-and-fatal-disease-2/feed/ 0 Have We Really Removed The Stigma Around Men’s Mental Health https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/have-we-really-removed-the-stigma-around-mens-mental-health/ https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/have-we-really-removed-the-stigma-around-mens-mental-health/#comments Sat, 19 Nov 2022 09:14:49 +0000 https://www.empowordjournalism.com/?p=33797 This month marks Men’s Health Awareness Month, which is a month dedicated to spreading awareness on the mental health issues men face. In the past, mental health for men has been a taboo topic – something many men have struggled with opening up about due to the toxic masculinity that society has historically forced upon men, and still finds itself in the cracks of society today.

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]]> https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/have-we-really-removed-the-stigma-around-mens-mental-health/feed/ 2 Assessing The Revolutionary Language Around Mental Health https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/assessing-the-revolutionary-language-around-mental-health/ https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/assessing-the-revolutionary-language-around-mental-health/#respond Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:56:47 +0000 https://www.empowordjournalism.com/?p=33566 One of my favourite things about my generation is the pretty revolutionary way in which we talk about mental health - in that we talk about it at all. The comparative comfort of young people around issues that were once so vilified and stigmatised quite often seems to me like a little miracle.

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]]> https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/assessing-the-revolutionary-language-around-mental-health/feed/ 0 The Issue of Society’s Stigmatised Milestones https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/the-issue-of-societys-stigmatised-milestones/ https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/the-issue-of-societys-stigmatised-milestones/#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2022 21:12:58 +0000 https://www.empowordjournalism.com/?p=22959 We all have an idea of how our lives 'should' pan out. There are timings that shouldn’t be missed, steps that shouldn’t be skipped and this pre-formulated plan of what the rest of our lives should structurally look like from the day we are old enough to understand it.

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