The self-stigma of loneliness can directly affect psychological distress in older people and may indirectly influence people if they feel like they’re at a disadvantage. Positive solitude ...

This stigma can keep people who need support from reaching out for help, which is more urgently needed than ever. As the cost of living crisis persists, experts are bracing for a rise in self-injury.

As mentioned, stigma is more than just a harmful social attitude—research shows it has real, measurable effects on the lives of people with serious mental health conditions.

Diabetes stigma encompasses the negative social judgements, stereotypes, and discrimination encountered by individuals living with diabetes. Such stigmatising attitudes can undermine emotional ...

Stigma towards people who self-harm can impact on their ability to rent an apartment, find a job or enter a new relationship, according to new research from Samaritans Ireland.

Researchers found positive associations between depressive features and self-stigma for those with substance use disorders, with the pull to self-stigma likely stronger than in the reverse, per a ...

Focusing on self care is beneficial to an individual’s mental health, she said. “Mental health is still a stigma with (some) people which is why we say self care,” Johnson said.

For many, internalizing these beliefs (known as self-stigma) can worsen mental health symptoms and interfere with recovery. A 2018 study found that people with higher levels of self-stigma at the ...

This stigma can keep people who need support from reaching out for help, which is more urgently needed than ever. As the cost of living crisis persists, experts are bracing for a rise in self ...