Overcoming the Stigma of Mental Illness: Peers Play a Critical Role

• By: Edwin Rosario Jose Cotto, LCSW Institute for Community Living (ICL)
• July 14th, 2022
• COVID-19, mental health stigma, peer specialists, peers, social stigma, stigma, Summer 2022 Issue
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Sharing a lived experience may be the single most important tool we have to address the stigma of living with a mental illness, and the isolation of COVID only exacerbated how important it can be to have someone to talk with who truly understands. Over the past two years, we all learned to keep a...