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Moving Wisconsin from Stigma to Recovery

This month WUMH and WISE are sending a series of emails to Wisconsin Legislators about the harmful effects of stigma. Here's the most recent on Children's Mental Health and Mental Health in the Workplace
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Emergency Department Visits

There are well-documented associations between mental illness and co-morbid physical illness, disability, and increased mortality.  Despite the strong evidence linking mental illness to increased physical morbidity and mortality, persons with mental illness often report that in a variety of healthcare settings, their medical concerns are discounted and their physical symptoms are ignored or misattributed to mental illness. Learn more about the research behind this issue in our one page paper: ER Visits