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Another study found that persons living in the most remote environments were more likely to hold highly stigmatized attitudes toward mental health care and these views were strongly predictive of willingness to actually seek care [ 17].
"The situation may be slightly more nuanced for people with highly stigmatized hidden disabilities, because the first priority is getting the job," Booksh says.
However, it is unclear whether elevated HIV-specific traumatic stress reflects the influence of specific HIV-related traumatic stressors (e.g., HIV diagnosis) or if it is more indicative of the cumulative effects of living with this highly stigmatized, chronic illness.
More importantly, the MC model requires an act of disclosure for an illness which is still highly stigmatized in some settings.
It is even more notable that the women's decisions as to whether to breastfeed were made in a context where HIV is also highly stigmatized and where non-breastfeeding might arouse suspicion in the community of an HIV- positive status [ 31, 38].
"He'd be highly stigmatized, seen as abnormal, feared, shunned, chased out of town," she said.
In the Hindu monastic code, there can be no such dispensation monks who return to society are highly stigmatized.
For several decades after Freud's visit to America, psychotherapy remained at the margins of American culture; mental illness was still a little discussed, and highly stigmatized, phenomenon.
