Talk:Stigma

Most non-standard disambiguation page I've ever seen
Disamb pages are supposed to be simple lists with minimal commentary—this one has a picture!!! I plan to edit this mercilessly, unless someone wants to read WP:MOSDAB and beat me to it. —johndburger 15:39, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Self Inflicted Stigma should be covered in association to the Mental health industry. We as consumers put stigma of being mentaly ill on our own being. While others except us we keep nagging ourselves that we are ill mentally and wont allow us to go forward... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.195.153.31 (talk • contribs) 2006-09-08T23:48:54 (UTC) Best wikipedia comment ever because you suck and are mental!! Seriously tho mental health stigma is a more serious problem than weight stigma and as such should be on this page. Ok? And if someone turns up to say that weight stigma *is* significantly more prevalent and disabling than any mental health stigma, I will mercilessly tease them without remorse. For now I'll keep my mouth shut.

Sorry, I must disagree. The definition of Stigma has drastically changed. johndburger. The definition of Stigma in this day & age is truely not just a matter of using the wrong word or action. Stigma is about Mental Illness. About disrespect. It is the use of negative labels to identify a person living with mental illness. It has come full ircle and now is most definitely associated with Mental Illness. ~Lindsay Reday 04:00, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

I understand that stigmas exist for many different people. But, I agree with the person who said above that there is a stigma about mental illness. http://www.nami.org/template.cfm?section=fight_stigma It's a significant problem that leads people to not recognize or receive assistance for illnesses that they have in an attempt to escape the stigmas of mental illness. Some of these stigmas include: 1. The belief that mentally ill people cannot recover, 2. The belief that mentally ill people are at fault for their illness, and 3. The belief that mentally ill people are violent. These stigmas are faulty in the majority of cases.

In regard to stigma 1: Treatment for mentally ill people is possible. Cognitive behavioral therapy and meditation techniques help many people with dissociative and behavioral mental disorders. Medication helps people in varying degrees with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy, http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=28501&cn=144, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_disorder In regard to stigma 2: Many people are born with mental illness. Others develop it in response to trauma or abuse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociation_(psychology) In regard to stigma 3: There have been incidents of violence by mentally ill people. However, "findings consistently indicate that it is many times more likely that people diagnosed with a serious mental illness living in the community will be the victims rather than the perpetrators of violence." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_disorder Last two paragraphs added by Beth Anutuk, anutuk@hotmail.com

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.93.12.65 (talk) 15:01, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Leprosy stigma
(Ichiro Kikuchi (talk) 06:43, 19 October 2009 (UTC)--
 * In the Japanese Wikipedia, there are a lot of words meaning stigma not only something stigma but completely different words meaning stigma and I thought leprosy stigma can be written. However, we must follow the Wikipedia rule.
 * Thank you very much Mr.or Ms. X for telling me that leprosy stigma should not be linked. In Japan stigma mean many things, stigma against burakumin etc. (Ichiro Kikuchi (talk) 01:50, 5 November 2009 (UTC))

should i add other
should we add other forms of stigma? Iwanttoeditthissh (talk) 17:24, 8 June 2010 (UTC)


 * If you mean other entries of the type "stigma associated with X", "stigma associated with Y", etc., then no, please let's not. We have a rule about this at WP:DAB. I'm removing weight stigma and leprosy stigma, these should never have been included. Fut.Perf. ☼ 17:32, 8 June 2010 (UTC)