What can be done to reduce the stigma and shame that still surround mental illness?

The only answer that struck my mind is better inform society. Mental illness is one of those illnesses that is constantly ignored when it comes to education. It seems that no one ever focuses on mental illness because of their biases that mental illness means someone is crazy or out of place. This way of thinking tends to incorporate its way into education and people fail to force themselves to learn more about mental illness like they do regular illnesses like cardio health or reproductive health. If people will learn to stop thinking that people cause themselves to suffer from mental illness and are outcasts of society, they will also learn that many mental illnesses do begin because the individual could not control it or from some traumatic event that occurred during the person's life. People need to learn that just because they are lucky to have a state of mind that is intact, not everyone was that lucky. They need to learn to accept that mentally ill people are humans too and deserve to be treated the same way. People who are mentally ill see the poor treatments they get from people and it adds to their already diminished self-esteem, which is unfair to them because they deserve every right to be treated like others. The only way people can stop judging the mentally ill is if they take the time to learn more about mental illnesses and how it starts.