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A survey of Winnipeggers by the Canadian Mental Health Association found many believe the organization should work hard to reduce the public’s stigma and discrimination towards mental illness.

Nicole Chammartin, executive director of the CMHA’s Winnipeg region, said it’s that stigma which has raised its head in recent days with the negative reaction by the public and provincial government to a Criminal Code Review Board ruling last week that would see Vince Li get two brief supervised outdoor passes a day.

Chammartin said 555 people responded to the survey during the last few months and of them, about 25 per cent said the CMHA should work hard at reducing the stigma of mental illness.

The comments received on the issue included “sometimes it (stigma) is worse than the mental illness itself”.

“I think that number says a lot,” Chammartin said on Wednesday after the CMHA released the survey’s results.

via Mental health group has a lot of education work ahead, survey shows – Winnipeg Free Press.