95% feel mental illness leads to discrimination

LIVING with a mental health illness means discrimination and unfair treatment, an in-depth survey of people with mental health problems has found.

More than 300 people were interviewed by Dublin City University’s school of nursing as part of Amnesty International Ireland’s (AI) mental health and human rights campaign.

The study, Hear My Voice, found 95% of participants reporting some level of unfair treatment because of their illness.