Stigma

Sharing Office Cubicles... and Diagnoses

Robert Klitzman, M.D. | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Stigma, Medical Ethics, Psychiatry, Confidentiality, Mental Health, Psychology, Mental Illness Stigma, Privacy, Politics, Health, Ethics, Genetics, Healthcare Reform, Bioethics, Anxiety, Medicine, Healthcare, Wellness, Healthy Living News
Robert Klitzman, M.D.

Coworkers occupy peculiar in-between roles in our lives. Most days, we spend at least half of our waking hours with them. Disclosing our personal problems to them can offer advantages, generating social support, or can prompt stigma and discrimination.

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Autism and Genes: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Robert Klitzman, M.D. | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Stigma, Mental Health, Ethics, Health Care Reform, Genetics, Bioethics, Autism and Health Care, Autism Discrimination, Autism and Health Insurance, Autism Genetics, Autism, Autism Gene, Autism Genes, Autism and Genetics, Healthy Living News
Robert Klitzman, M.D.

How we -- as individuals and as a society -- respond to burgeoning genetic discoveries will be as important as these discoveries themselves.

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Will New DSM-5 Diagnosis End 'Dementia' Stigma?

Marguerite Manteau-Rao | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Stigma, Dementia Diagnosis, Dementia, Mci, Health Labels, Elder Care, Alzheimer's, Lewy Body Dementia, Major Neurocognitive Disorder, Frontotemporal Dementia, Mncd, Dsm-5, Mental Health, Healthy Living Health News, Healthy Living News
Marguerite Manteau-Rao

"Dementia" is a loaded word, one that carries with it the baggage of hundreds of years of gross associations and misunderstanding of the reality of the person living with the illness.

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Stigmata and Violence as Social Control

Warren J. Blumenfeld | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Stigma, Stigmata, Scapegoating, Transgender, Latino, Bisexual, Lesbian, Oppression, Violence, Minutemen Movement, Black, Gay, Social Control, Politics News
Warren J. Blumenfeld

We must not and cannot dismiss these incidents as simply the actions of a few individuals, for oppression exists on multiple levels in multiple forms.

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Arthur Delaney

Stigma Of Long-Term Unemployment Boosts Jobless Rate

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 02.17.2012

Read More: Stigma, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Long-Term Unemployment, Unemployment Stigma, Unemployment Benefits, Congressional Budget Office, Business News

WASHINGTON -- The stigma of long-term unemployment is so bad that it actually contributes to a higher national unemployment rate, according to an anal...

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Declining With Dignity

Mary Walker Baron | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Stigma, Aging, Mary-Walker-Baron-but-This-Is-Different, Assisted Living, Getting Older, On Getting Older, Getting Older Women, Is Getting Older, Getting Old, Aging Gracefully, Healthy Living News
Mary Walker Baron

There's nothing quite like "placing" an elderly family member in a "facility" to conjure up feelings of guilt and shame and anger and, yes, failure. None of those feelings was communicated to us in any way by my father-in-law.

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Actress Patty Duke's Fantasy: A March on Washington

S.Z. Berg | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Stigma, Patrick Kennedy, Mental Health, Brain Disorders, Rosalynn Carter, Patty Duke Bipolar, Mental Health Stigma, Brain Disorders Stigma, Patty Duke Mental Illness, Mental Illness Stigma, Patty Duke Mental Illness Stigma, Healthy Living News
S.Z. Berg

For nearly 25 years, Patty Duke has traveled around the country educating audiences on brain disorders such as hers and speaking out about the stigma that goes along with being diagnosed with a "mental illness."

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A Conversation With Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter About Stigma, Discrimination, and Brain Disorders

S.Z. Berg | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Stigma, Mental Illness, Depression, Mental Health, Anxiety Disorder, Ocd, Rosalynn Carter, Schizophrenia, Bipolar, Discrimination, Healthy Living News
S.Z. Berg

For more than 40 years, former First Lady Rosalynn Carter has been an unrelenting crusader for people suffering from mental illness.

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COLORed Folks -- Share Your Shame, Fight the Stigma

Adia Colar | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Shame, Stigma, Therapy, Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat, Mentoring, Eating Disorders, Bulimia, Mental Illness, Eating Disorder Awareness, Addiction and Recovery, Black Women Eating Disorders, ED Recovery, Healthy Living News
Adia Colar

There was a time when I wasn't willing to admit I had an eating disorder. After all, I was supposed to be on top of everything -- a good example for my school, my family, God, my race... and the list continued. An eating disorder didn't fit into that equation.

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Why Do We Stigmatize This?

Paul Heroux | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Mental Health, Depression Medication, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Healthy Living Health News, Depression and Stigma, Stigma, Dadt and Stigma, Menta Illness, Healthy Living Mind, Mental Illness Stigma, Mental Illness and Stigma, Healthy Living News
Paul Heroux

In our society, we don't ask about mental illness, and we don't tell anyone about mental illness for fear of being thought of as weak or defective.

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Changing Stigmas Through Sports In Ethiopia

Alex Budman | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Stigma, Leadership, Change, Education, Ethiopia, Children, Right to Play, Handicapped, Africas-Young-Leaders, Africa, Impact News
Alex Budman

From the first second Yonas Tadess enters the gates of the school, it is evident that he is the big man on campus. The stigma that is usually applied to disabled people in Ethiopia does not apply to him.

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When Whites Feel Marginalized

Sam Sommers | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Stigma, Racism, Survey, Discrimination, Bias, Employment, Whites, Blacks, Ethnicity, Politics News
Sam Sommers

In an era in which all groups, even the historically empowered majority, see themselves as victims of bias, deciding from which direction to combat the problem of discrimination will only continue to become an increasingly difficult task.

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Bullying is Much More Than Child's Play

Patrice Bendig | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stigma, Cruelty, Mental Health, Unfar, Children, Bullying, Long Term Health, Cybersecurity, Reunion, Psychology, Unhealthy, Grown Up, Vicious, Anger, Cyberbullying, Playing, Cybercrime, Kids, College, Hatred, High School, Harrassment, Repercussions, Serious, Impact News
Patrice Bendig

With the recent outburst of cyberbullying, and teenage suicide deaths around the country, it is about time that people understand bullying is not just a kid thing.

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Mental Illness Awareness Week Is Nothing to Celebrate -- In Fact, It Doesn't Even Exist

DJ Jaffe | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Nimh, Stigma, Mental Illness, Bipolar Disorder, Mentally Ill, Fuller Torrey, Schizophrenia, Samhsa, Mental Illness Awareness Week, Healthy Living News
DJ Jaffe

Right now, well meaning mental health advocates are busy hosting events to reduce the "stigma" of mental illness. Except that there is no 'stigma' to having a mental illness. There is discrimination.

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Mental Illness Awareness Week Diverts Attention from Serious Mental Illness

DJ Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mental Illness, Stigma, Mentally Ill, Mental Health, Schizophrenia, Bipolar, Manic Depression, Discrimination, Treatment Advocacy Center, Laura's Law, Kendra's Law, Fuller Torrey, Assisted Outpatient Treatment, Aot, Policy, Impact News
DJ Jaffe

Whether one believes that there is stigma to being mentally ill; or discrimination against the mentally ill, the answer remains the same: let's help the most seriously ill.

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The Meaning of Breasts

Juliette Fretté | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Stigma, Equality, Women, Public Nudity, Cultural Norms, Breastfeeding, Sexism, Ageism, Motherhood, Breasts, Nudity, Babies, Sexuality, Healthy Living News
Juliette Fretté

There should be nothing wrong with perceiving female breasts (or male breasts) with sexual adoration. But let us also be careful to avoid pigeonholing their entire meaning based on that appreciation.

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The Myth of the Teen Pregnancy Epidemic

Kierra Johnson | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Stigma, Teen Pregnancy, Abstinence Education, Teen Sex, Parenting, Sex Education, Healthy Living News
Kierra Johnson

Teenage pregnancy isn't the epidemic. The lack of information and support for people to make healthy decisions about their lives is the true epidemic. The culture of shame and scapegoating around sex is the real problem.

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Voices to be Heard, In Harmony

Shantha Rau Barriga | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stigma, Rights, Discrimination, Disability, Music by Prudence, United Nations, Zimbabwe, World News
Shantha Rau Barriga

The documentary film, Music by Prudence, tells the story of a young Zimbabwean woman born with a congenital disease that twisted her body and led to t...

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When the Government Sponsors Stigma

Joe Amon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alabama, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, Mississippi, Human Rights Watch, Prison, Stigma, Politics News
Joe Amon

Rape in prison is a serious issue. However, there is no evidence that sexual predators in prison are more likely to be HIV-positive than not.

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Overcoming Stigma: Dead NFL Players, Suicidal Veterans, and Emotional Women

Aspen Baker | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Abortion, Stigma, Culture Wars, Iraq Veterans, Nfl, Mental Health, Pro-Voice, Abortion Rights, Suicide, Abortion Wellbeing Month, Iraq Veterans' Mental Health, Culture Change, Pro-Choice, Healthy Living News
Aspen Baker

Across the spectrum of our mental health issues, we face similar reactions from the very people who should feel a shared sense of responsibility for our mental health -- deny, defend and attack.

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Wrestling with Stigma

Aimee Liu | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Stigma, Eating Disorders, Binge Eating Disorder, Charity, Bulimia, Anorexia, Activism, Culture, Health, Healthy Living News
Aimee Liu

Now, even though my eating disorder is long gone, that impulse to demean myself -- and all that I do -- remains. The shadow of judgment, if not confronted, will darken my writing.

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War Over Addiction: Evaluating The DSM-V

Stanton Peele | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: DSM Task Force, Dsm-Iv, Bipolar Disorder, Dsm-V, Addiction, Hypersexuality Disorder, Binge Eating Disorder, Substance Use Disorder, Stigma, Psychiatric Label, Psychiatric Diagnosis, Addiction & Recovery, Healthy Living News
Stanton Peele

You've heard about the Drug War? Well there's a war being fought over addiction by the Task Force revising the psychiatric bible in the United States.

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Returning Troops From Iraq And Afghanistan Are Different From Our Vietnam Vets

Belleruth Naparstek | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Audio Self-Help, Durham VA, Delayed Onset PTSD, Gates, Chemical Dependency, Guided Imagery, Stigma, Phoenix VA, Iraq, Draft, Ptsd, Troops, Downloads, Traumatic Brain Injury, National Guard, Drug Abuse, Vietnam, Posttraumatic Stress, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Department of Defense, Veterans Administration, Afghanistan, World War II, Shinseki, Volunteer Army, Natural Disasters, Military Families, Healthy Living News
Belleruth Naparstek

This new group of active military knows what's happening to them, to a much greater extent. There's been a push to educate our troops and the general public about posttraumatic stress.

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Mental Health Parity: Obama Style

DJ Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Treatment Advocacy Center, Mentally Ill, Mental Health Parity, Mental Health, Obamacare, DJ Jaffe, Kendra's Law, President Obama, Schizophrenia, Health Care Reform, Institutes for Mental Disease, Health Insurance, IMD Exclusion, Involuntary Commitment, Involuntary Treatment, Stigma, Psychiatric Hospitals, treatmentadvocacycenter.org, State Psychiatric Hospitals, State Hospitals, Discrimination, Medicaid, Politics News
DJ Jaffe

I'm happy the Obama Administration is telling group insurers to stop discrimination against the mentally ill. Now I wish they were listening to what they are saying.

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Disappearing Acts: When friends are gone after a diagnosis of bipolar disorder

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Irene S. Levine

QUESTION Dear Dr. Levine, I am reeling from the awareness that certain friends who meant a great deal to me have abruptly turned their back on me no...

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