When one in four Americans will be affected by mental illness in their lifetime, why is it often an afterthought in discussions of health care access? The answer, says U-C Professor of Psychology Dr. Steve Hinshaw, is stigma; the same lack of knowledge and understanding society has been anchored with for centuries.
As Dr. Hinshaw tells KCBS Radio's Jane McMillan, what's needed to break the stigma of mental illness is the open sharing of personal stories of everyday people managing their illness and thriving in spite of it. He does just that, sharing his family's personal story in his new book, "Another Kind of Madness, A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness."