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What’s Your Secret: Increasing Awareness & Decreasing Stigma

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By Holly Harding

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We’ve all encountered friends, family members and coworkers who don’t understand the true impact of migraine; who downplay it and see it as a mere headache. As most of us who have migraine know, it is a complex neurological condition in which head pain is but one of a myriad of very challenging symptoms.

Educating others about migraine misinformation

In this What’s Your Secret video, we share some ideas about how to educate others and ask you to share the strategies you employ to increase awareness about the condition to help people better understand that migraine is more than a headache. These efforts decrease stigma and increase compassion about migraine and therefore are worth our time and energy.

Thanks for sharing your ideas in the comment section below. We look forward to learning from you!

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