Series of Unfortunate Stereotypes - Naming and Shaming Mental Health StigmasPaperback
Series of Unfortunate Stereotypes - Naming and Shaming Mental Health StigmasPaperback From a young age, Lucy Nichol has always been on edge. In A Series of Unfortunate Stereotypes, Lucy explores the…
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Series of Unfortunate Stereotypes - Naming and Shaming Mental Health StigmasPaperback
From a young age, Lucy Nichol has always been on edge. In A Series of Unfortunate Stereotypes, Lucy explores the different lenses through which she - and other people - have viewed her mental health problems. Whether it's because of her fear of beards, a general sense that she can catch a disease from anything, or the belief that she's going to throw up at any given moment, she's never really felt safe.
And so she began to talk more about her experience, eventually becoming a columnist in Sarah Millican's magazine Standard Issue. She tackles a number of different stereotypes placed on people living with mental illness, including the idea that they are narcissists, hypochondriacs, and psychos.After writing a blog post about her journey, Lucy realised that she wasn't alone in feeling this way. In writing about her life in such an open way, Lucy has been able to claw her