Stigma and Personal Attitudes

People should work out their own mental health problems

Once you have a mental illness, you have it for life

Females are more likely to have a mental illness than are males.

Medication is the best treatment for mental illness

People with a mental illness are generally violent and dangerous.

Adults are more likely than teenagers to have a mental illness.

You can tell by looking at people whether they have a mental illness.

People with a mental illness are generally shy and quiet.

Mental illness only happens to certain kinds of people.

Most people will never be affected by mental illness.