Editorial
Mental Health Awareness Week 芒聙聯 11th to 17th May 2015 芒聙聯 Overcoming Stigma
Atiqul Haq Mazumder*
Department of Adult Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Abstract
Mental health awareness week is going to be observed this year from 11th to 17th May. Stigma about Psychiatry is a global issue running from the very beginning of every civilization since today. As being a psychiatrist in a developing country, I am fighting against stigma by not only treating the patients suffering from schizophrenia but also educating parents of adolescent school going children in Bangladesh. I was inspired by the work of my Japanese colleague Hatsumi Yoshii, who has been developing an effective educational program since 2011 to improve knowledge of schizophrenia in parents of junior and senior high school students in Japan
