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Provost Steven E. Hyman jump-started the first annual Mental Health Awareness and Advocacy Week at Harvard with a lecture last night in Emerson Hall that addressed the stigma of mental illness in American society...
...Hyman, the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, spoke to about 35 people on behalf of the Mental Health Awareness and Advocacy Group (MHAAG)—a campus organization founded in 1997 that aims to make members of the Harvard community recognize the seriousness of mental illness...
...Hyman said treatment is often not sought by patients who are too ashamed to seek help for mental health problems such as depression and eating disorders...
...Hyman said educational programs monitored by advocacy groups, which provide scientific evidence for the public, are an effective way to raise awareness of mental health and illness...
...Using scientific evidence is not intended to diminish an individual’s condition but to try to convince people an illness is no way qualitatively different from high blood pressure,” Hyman said...