Does Seeing ADHD as a Continuum Decrease Stigma?

 ADHD in the News 2019-10-10


One of the things about mental health stigma is that you don’t even need to be open about your diagnosis to experience it. Just having symptoms that other people can observe is enough to make them treat you differently, even if they don’t know the “label” behind those symptoms. An example comes from a recent survey of 1,008 adults in Germany, the results of which were published this month in a paper titled ADHD, Stigma and Continuum Beliefs.