The educational sphere is one of the most important in building any society, but mental health remains a neglected issue in classrooms, where it is necessary to promote a stigma-free view of mental health. Some tips for talking about mental health in the classroom without resorting to stigma are:

• Avoid associating mental health disorders with violence.
• Do not confuse mental health disorders with intellectual disability.
• Do not use the disorder as the main characteristic of the person (the person has a disorder, they are not that disorder).
• Avoid generalizing, as each person has their own unique characteristics.
• Do not associate mental health disorder with eccentricity, which can be a source of ridicule.
• Do not attribute falsely positive qualities to the disorder, such as genius or artistic ability, for example.