Can the prevention of mental illness stigma and destigmatization of people with mental illness be effectuated?

Mental illness stigma is global and universal. People from all socio-economic strata and living in different cultural environments nurture it. Huge negative effects of mental illness stigma on people with mental illness, their family, as well as on the mental health delivery system, determine the relevance of this kind of stigma. Hence it is necessary to assess the feasibility of stigma prevention and of destigmatization of people with mental illness. In order to do so, the analysis of the factors and circumstances that might explain the endangerment and enduring nature of mental illness stigma has been made. It has been shown that the way in which mental disorders present themselves and the way in which people experience those with mental illness underlie the genesis of mental illness stigma and its resistance to change. .