Stigma attached to mental illness appears to be a great obstacle to the improvement of the lives of people with mental illness and their families in many cultures around the world This cross-cultural study investigates stigmatization and help seeking attitudes among 259 subjects in three groups: Americans living in the United States, Brazilians living in the United States, and Brazilians living in Brazil. The specific endeavor was to compare help seeking attitudes and stigma towards mental illness among the three groups. In addition, the study proposes to determine how stigma among these groups correlated with help seeking attitudes. Data was collected by using a demographic data form, the Attribution Questionnaire - 27 (Chicago Consortium for Stigma Research, 2005) and the Inventory of Attitudes towards Seeking Mental Health Services (MacKenzie, Knox, Gekoski, and Macaulay, 2004). Despite strong differences in education level, age, gender, marriage status, past experience with treatment and socioeconomic status, the three groups were found to have similar levels of stigma towards mental illness and help seeking propensity. Brazilians were shown to highly favor psychotherapy over psychiatry. Also the study did not find a correlation between stigmatization of mental illness and help seeking propensity.