Public health messaging that drives stigma around pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a medication that can reduce HIV risk by up to 99%, appears to play a role in uptake of the medication. While the ...

"Some clinicians argue that the gaming addiction label might create stigma toward regular gamers, by conveying the idea that gaming is inherently harmful," says Flinders University's Associate ...

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This is the second in a series of posts on stigma and community written in collaboration with David Matthew Doyle throughout which we will clarify how the stigma associated with disease functions and ...

Regarding Steven Petrow’s Sept. 14 Health & Science essay, “Words about mental health can stigmatize”: Stigma does thwart treatment. But the real problem is that the treatment itself is negatively ...

Stigma gets a lot of bad press in psychology when it keeps people from seeking therapy or when it is overgeneralized. Seeking therapy is a sign that there is something wrong with you, and efforts to ...

Earlier this year, the Journal of Abnormal Psychology announced a change to its name because, as its editor in chief Angus MacDonald III wrote, “Names matter.” The spectrum of diagnoses considered ...

Many people struggle with mental illness — in any given year, one in five people in Canada experience a mental health problem or illness — but it is still heavily stigmatized. This seems to happen ...

British Columbia is experiencing an unprecedented opioid crisis. Drug overdoses are the leading cause of death in the province for those aged 10 to 59. B.C., and all of Canada, are trying hard to help ...

My experience of suicidal thinking, clinically known as suicidal ideation, comes from Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). MDD is a serious condition that affects how I think, feel and function in my ...

Novel findings attend to attitudes of the stigmatized, rather than stigmatizers Past research identified perception of promiscuity and assumptions that PrEP users are HIV-positive as key drivers of ...