Understanding the Impact of Stigma: The Balance Between Choice and Accountability

• By: Larissa Breedlove, MFA EmblemHealth
• July 14th, 2022
• bipolar disorder, mental health stigma, relationships, stigma, stigma in the workplace, Summer 2022 Issue, workplace accommodations
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In contrast to today’s social media saturation, the burgeoning technology of the mid-2,000s was a time of comparative innocence. Similarly, candid conversations around mental health were virtually non-existent. Fewer than five years out of college, I’d recently been forced to resign from my...

Coordinated Behavioral Care’s Mission to Destigmatize Workplace Mental Health

• By: Emily Grossman, MA, CPRP Amanda Semidey, LCSW Dacia Barrington Coordinated Behavioral Care (CBC)
• July 14th, 2022
• mental health stigma, stigma, stigma in the workplace, Summer 2022 Issue, workplace accommodations
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When Emily Grossman began work as Training Institute Manager at Coordinated Behavioral Care (CBC), she had the same fear that had plagued her at the start of other jobs. As a person who is “out” about living with mental illness, she had always worried whether this new working environment would...