A large proportion of individuals who suffer from the symptoms of a mental illness will avoid seeking treatment for their symptoms because of the social stigma[[2]] associated with having a mental illness.

many people feel the need to keep their mental illness a secret, and will deny the symptoms that they are experiencing.

prognoses of a mental illness can worsen the longer that a mental illness remains untreated. The added anxiety of fearing a mental illness diagnoses can also be detrimental to an individual's mental health, this effect can greatly exacerbate an anxiety disorder or mood disorder. Efforts are being undertaken worldwide to eliminate the stigma of mental illness ^[54].

Two thirds of the people who would benefit from treatment for a mental illness do not receive treatmen