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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Sirin Kale

The people making a difference: the mental health campaigner on the truth about personality disorders

Katja Pavlovna
Katja Pavlovna, whose website has drawn a flood of first-person stories about mental illness Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian

Katja Pavlovna doesn’t think any mental illness is sexy, of course. But her mental health initiative, Sorry My Mental Illness Isn’t Sexy Enough For You, addresses a very real issue, namely the way some conditions carry a greater stigma than others.

“When we think about mental health,” says Pavlovna, “we often think depression, anxiety, PTSD or bipolar disorder. But have you ever talked to someone about schizotypal personality disorder?”

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