Breaking The Silence
Breaking The Silence
Podcast Description
Breaking the Silence is a podcast that dives into the stigma surrounding mental health and substance use—how it starts, how it spreads, and how we begin to break it. Through real conversations with youth, families, community leaders, and healthcare professionals, we explore how stigma affects help-seeking, identity, and healing across generations and cultures. Each episode unpacks a different layer of the issue—from personal stories to policy, spirituality to school systems—so we can build understanding, challenge assumptions, and create space for support over shame.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on mental health stigma, substance use, help-seeking behaviors, and cultural influences, with episodes discussing themes like the impact of stigma on youth, shifts in attitudes over time, and international perspectives on mental health, such as spiritual beliefs in Nigeria and their effects on help-seeking.
Breaking the Silence is a podcast that dives into the stigma surrounding mental health and substance use—how it starts, how it spreads, and how we begin to break it. Through real conversations with youth, families, community leaders, and healthcare professionals, we explore how stigma affects help-seeking, identity, and healing across generations and cultures. Each episode unpacks a different layer of the issue—from personal stories to policy, spirituality to school systems—so we can build understanding, challenge assumptions, and create space for support over shame.
Breaking the Silence is a podcast that explores how stigma surrounding mental health and substance use impacts individuals, families, and communities. In our first episode, we’re joined by a member of the management team at Wyndham House, a youth support organization in Guelph, to break down what stigma really is, how it affects young people, and why building systems of support (not shame) is so important. Using theories like Erving Goffman’s work on stigma, we unpack how society labels and marginalizes those struggling with mental health, and what needs to change.
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