Such as self-stigma hurts people with depression

Such as self-stigma hurts people with depression

People with mental illnesses such as depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, are facing a long list of challenges. A gloomy mood, the inability of the joys of life, to enjoy a powerful prescription drug, the "isolation and social stigma also feel many of them the pain of self-stigma, not to write the patient internalize the myths and stereotypes of mental illness. Experts say the stigma, the ability of people suffering from depression or mental illness interfere recover.

Self-stigma is the burden that is common in people with mental illness, said Robert Lundin, a worker in the Chicago area of mental health and writers, the hallucinations started about 20 years and then with schizoaffective disorder is diagnosed, a combination schizophrenia, mania and depression. "It [the situation and treatment, and later], the diagnosis has me with a sense of failure, it is very difficult," he recalls. "Your life is not good when it comes to these diseases." But, he adds. had "It would not be stigmatized if you have diabetes or heart failure are" Lundin is actually a survivor of colon cancer and has no feelings of stigma associated cancer.

Such as self-stigma
Self-stigma occurs when patients do not agree with and internalization of social stereotypes. It tends to strike in three ways, "said Amy Watson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Jane Adams School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Patients often believe that their illness is a sign of weakness or lack of character.
• Patients develop feelings of low self-esteem and less ready to seek and maintain treatment.
• expect that patients who suffer from discrimination, to protect themselves and limit their social interactions and be able to take jobs and housing.