Mental health Advocate Challenges the Stigma that Follows Disclosure

As the country marks Mental Health Awareness month, we are encouraged to talk more openly about mental illness, but what happens when someone actually tells you they have a diagnosis? For Mental health advocate, Yael Geffen this is a question she has taken up her strides by challenging the stigma that can follow disclosure. Drawing on her own experience of living openly with a mental health condition, she says a diagnosis can quickly become the lens through which people reinterpret a woman's ambition, emotions, decisions, mistakes and even her successes. Bongiwe Zwane earlier caught up with Yael for more details...