Selena Gomez receives a Stanford Award for Mental Health Advocacy, following the release of the documentary film “Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me”.
Popsugar reports: “On Nov. 10, Selena Gomez was honored with the first Mental Health Innovations (“Mentee”) Award for Excellence in Mental Health Advocacy at the Mental Healthcare Innovations Summit, put on within the Stanford School of Medicine. According to the Stanford Healthcare Innovation Team, Gomez was chosen for her “contributions to mental health, particularly for her advocacy fighting shame and stigma, as well as her commitment to expanding access to resources as a social entrepreneur and digital mental health pioneer.”
Stanford writes that Gomez “inspires millions of people with her art, yet Gomez transcends these roles by vulnerably sharing her mental health journey, reminding us that suffering is universal…While some of us meet the criteria for clinical diagnoses and some of us don’t, to be human is to know what it is like to experience pain, adversity, shame, and fear…And Gomez has chosen to use her platform to normalize the ups and downs that define the human experience.”
