Stigmabase | North America

Calls to LGBTQ Crisis Lines Double Due to Election Results - Many of the callers were members of the LGBTQ community or ethnic minorities, who have expressed high levels of concerns that the large strides ...

Trump cabinet candidate said Pulse a 'distraction' and trans people 'freakish' - Ben Carson, whom Trump appointed as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, has made similar comments, calling LGBTQ  ...

Are There Better Times In Sight For The LGBTQ Community In India? - The LGBT community has been at the receiving end of social stigma for a long time now. This has led to them being isolated and deprived of basic ...

Indiana church bans man from singing at his grandmother's funeral because of his 'gay lifestyle' - The letter suggested that Lengerich was concerned about Hakes' advocating for the LGBTQ community and that anyone representing or serving the ...

Racist Trump supporter from craft store identified and shamed on social media - She is just as nuts in person as this video depicts. From a legal perspective, I am not sure what I am or am not allowed to say; but I will leave it at this.

Three ways Trump's pick for Health and Human Services Secretary is a nightmare for all of us - In another anti- LGBTQ , anti-choice addition to his cabinet, President-elect Trump announced today that he's nominating Georgia congressman Tom ...

Trans woman's death mocked by pro-Trump trolls - The day before Thanksgiving, Amanda Waite and her 5-year-old son received the worst possible news: her partner, the transgender co-parent of their ...

Would Donald Trump also punish people for burning the pride flag? - A pro-Trump campaign video released by gay provocateur and Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos featured an LGBTQ pride flag burned with the aid of ...

It scares the crap out of me,' school counsellor worried not enough support for northern teen suicides - A fourth teen attempted suicide Friday morning. ... Kathy Willerth is the director of mental health and addiction services for the province's Ministry of ...

Teen Depression On The Rise, Research Finds Psychological Treatment Is Effective Tool In Battle ... - A study has been conducted between 2005 and 2014 that delved into the mental health of teens , especially those suffering from depression.

Autocracy in America ? - Trump's rise, however, must be placed in the context of legitimate grievances that many Americans have with regard to economic inequality which has ...

Battles to end poverty, inequality will falter in Trump era, experts predict - Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump looks out at Lake Michigan during a visit to the Milwaukee County War Memorial Center in ...

How Giving Up Drink and Drugs in Your Twenties Can Change Your Life - If you already had any kind of mental health issue, like anxiety or bipolar disorder, substances are likely to make your condition worse, not better," ...

Stopping Suicides on Campus -  Mental health experts estimate that more than 1,000 college students kill themselves every year, and research has found that suicide is one of the ...

The Mental Costs of Being a Refugee in America - But there's no word for mental illness in Somali. "You are either sane or insane," says Muna Mohamed, a Somali-born case manager at a mental ...

Too many mental health apps put style over substance - We share some of our most intimate data with mental health apps, but there's surprisingly little proof of what they give us in return. Many medical ...