Graham Thornicroft

TL;DR: Stigma has a small- to moderate-sized negative effect on help-seeking and Ethnic minorities, youth, men and those in military and health professions were disproportionately deterred by stigma.

TL;DR: It is argued that the global burden of mental illness is underestimated and the reasons for under-estimation are examined to identify five main causes: overlap between psychiatric and neurological disorders; the grouping of suicide and self-harm as a separate category; conflation of all chronic pain syndromes with musculoskeletal disorders; exclusion of personality disorders from disease burden calculations; and inadequate consideration of the contribution of severe mental illness to mortality from associated causes.

TL;DR: Scarcity of available resources, inequities in their distribution, and inefficiencies in their use pose the three main obstacles to better mental health, especially in low-income and middle-income countries.

TL;DR: The nature, direction, and severity of anticipated and experienced discrimination reported by people with schizophrenia is described, which suggests measures such as disability discrimination laws might not be effective without interventions to improve self-esteem of people with mental illness.