Sharing her story is one way that Petrona Joseph is contributing to breaking the cycle of stigmatization, shame, fear, and guilt that compounds our efforts to heal our mental health.

This conversation exposes childhood events and adult behaviours that led Petrona through a life riddled with guilt, shame, panic attacks, depressive episodes to finally realizing that all she needed was love, acceptance and mental health care to be okay.

Petrona's book Stigmatized can be found on Amazon.