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[How to understand the wokeness-paradox of multiple stigma in persons with mental vulnerabilities?]
Background:
Prejudice, stigma and discrimination against people with mental health problems are largely responsible for their limited social participation. Joining the globalised wokeness movement could reduce the tendency of social injustice.
Aim:
To explore the reasons why people with mental health problems experience difficulties to integrate into the wokeness debate and to suggest possible solutions.
Results:
Intersectionality, persons with mental health problems often being part of different vulnerable minority groups, stress and public stigma, are the main reasons of the limited level of advocacy for this target group.
Conclusion:
The struggle against social injustice that mental vulnerable persons are victims of, remains unequal even in times of wokeness. A strategic, non-patronising cooperation between psychiatrists, patients, family members and interest groups in the media and in the public and political forum, could make it possible to join the international wokeness movement.
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