The stigma of mental illness: What it looks like and how it's being shattered in Colorado

The negative bias — or stigma — surrounding mental health often is
seen as an individual failing and something that can be controlled,
said Jenna Glover, director of psychology training at the Pediatric
Mental Health Institute at Children’s Hospital Colorado [and associate
professor of psychiatry at CU School of Medicine]. “There’s a
perceived weakness,” she said, in the individual who is having mental
problems.