HLT301 Contexts Of Practice: Mental Health Care

Stigma

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Introduction. 3

Discussion. 3

Conclusion. 5

Reference list 6

Introduction

Stigma is one of the leading risk factors in people’s lives. It creates a huge wall between two people and the people don’t know how to pull them down. Stigma is a disease that creates mental disability, mental illness, and many more. Through this disease, a person becomes weaker physically and mentally. This disease creates an extreme difference in their personal and families lives. Stigma is a negative attitude against people based on distinguishing characteristics such as health conditions, disability, mental illness, and many more. It also creates social issues such as religion, race, sexuality, culture, and many more. Stigma affects society badly and creates a huge difference in their community creation. Stigma contributes the most risk factor in poor health outcomes. Through this disease, a person left their mental happiness and this person reduces the chances that this person needs appropriate care and rest. Stigma creates a huge difference in the person’s attitudes and life process. Through this disease, a person becomes more afraid, weak, lacks understanding, and many more. This disease creates a huge surround to develop their career and put trouble in their life journey. Through this kind of disease, the community takes against them and they become unknown to all as they do some bad work or some bad things.

Discussion

Stigma is a powerful disease that makes more difference in a person’s life and their surroundings also. Stigma involves negative attitudes and issues against people’s lives such as mental health, physical illness, mental condition, disability, and many more. This disease creates a disparity in mental health conditions. It affects them mentally and they become mentally disabled. Through this issue, this person becomes different in their community and culture. The community or society of the person or their family life becomes all bands and make a huge disparity socially and culturally. Through this issue gender differences, religious differences, sexual differences increase and create a bad impact on the social system. The locality and community siding them to connect or meet to others, affect their mental condition. It creates cultural and social differences through this disease and bad impact on culture (Krendl el at, 2020).

Figure 1: Stigma

Source: (Ibrahim et al., 2019)

Stigma affects mental health conditions badly and effectively. Stigma is when a person looks at another person badly and negatively. It affects personal health, especially mental health. Through this issue, the suffering person becomes worse and stops the person who needs the help to do so. Stigma also introduces a health-seeking attitude in their bodies (Ibrahim et al., 2019). Stigma affects their mental condition very badly and their symptoms become very hard to recover from. Through this issue, this person believes in so many negative thoughts. They become weak mentally, physically and their mental condition suggests they avoid treatment. This person becomes more hopeless, ashamed, weak, and has low self-esteem. They and their family become isolated and through this, they are involved mentally and physically with so many criminal issues and criminal offences. Stigma investigates mental health issues and contributes to mental illness effectively (Edwards A Kotera, 2018).

Stigmatisation is a different type of social phenomenon which leads to the marginalisation of a specific person or group. This phenomenon affects their families and society badly. Through stigma, create a framework of mental illness and also measure illness(Fox et al, 2018)Through this, stigma creates discrimination in their society and also affects the loss of dignity. Stigma affects and creates a great impact on the person’s emotional wealth and health condition. Through this issue, the person becomes stressed and makes huge changes in their behaviour and attitudes. This affects their mental health so badly that the person becomes more harmful, rude, and dangerous. They involve some criminal offences like fighting, violence, social bad work, and many more. There are so many mental health websites where all the mental issues are included, such as psych central, head to health, headspace, and many more. These websites are very helpful to aware persons and distribute information and ideas to protect those issues. Through these websites, people get knowledge about this kind of disease and get information on how to protect and recover those issues. These websites make a great appearance in the social and cultural sector. These websites help to identify issues, their condition, attitudes, and behaviours and suggest how to recover and protect these issues.

These websites are more powerful to recover and reduce this disease. This website is suggested for 14+ ages. Health website introduces digital technology to overcome all mental health issues and disparities (Andrew et al., 2019). This website is very useful to recover these issues and suggests some sticks to protect these issues. Through this website, people gain more knowledge and information about these diseases and their impact on the environment. It is very informative to utilise its impact and proportion to protect it. These websites make brief information that affects the social system and recover social issues. Through this website information, people become stronger, powerful to enhance the awareness in the locality and help to create a powerful and united atmosphere. Also, it helps to manage the mental and physical growth of an individual which give direct effects on his or her lifestyle. So, each and every person should focus on these factors.

Conclusion

Stigma is a very harmful social issue and affects the culture in a negative way. It creates a great difference in socially and culturally who are affected by these issues. These issues impact health and mental conditions. These issues make a person more poor, weak, and hopeless. Health websites play a huge and significant role in these issues and make a prominent structure to recover these parts. This website is very helpful to maintain this disparity and differences. These websites suggest information and knowledge which help the person to show their attitudes, what to do to recover and what’s its impact on the environment. This website is very helpful to maintain all those social issues and make a beautifully connected community with people.

Reference list

Andrews, J. A., Brown, L. J., Hawley, M. S., & Astell, A. J. (2019). Older adults’ perspectives on using digital technology to maintain good mental health: interactive group study. Journal of medical Internet research, 21(2), e11694. Retrieved from: https://www.jmir.org/2019/2/e11694/

Edwards, A. M., & Kotera, Y. (2021). Mental health in the UK police force: A qualitative investigation into the stigma with mental illness. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 19(4), 1116-1134. Retrieved from: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11469-019-00214-x

Fox, A. B., Earnshaw, V. A., Taverna, E. C., & Vogt, D. (2018). Conceptualizing and measuring mental illness stigma: The mental illness stigma framework and critical review of measures. Stigma and health, 3(4), 348-350. Retrieved from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6261312/

Ibrahim, N., Amit, N., Shahar, S., Wee, L. H., Ismail, R., Khairuddin, R., … & Safien, A. M. (2019). Do depression literacy, mental illness beliefs and stigma influence mental health help-seeking attitude? A cross-sectional study of secondary school and university students from B40 households in Malaysia. BMC public health, 19(4), 1-8. Retrieved from: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-019-6862-6

Krendl, A. C., & Pescosolido, B. A. (2020). Countries and cultural differences in the stigma of mental illness: the east–west divide. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 51(2), 149-167. Retrieved from: https://krendlab.sitehost.iu.edu/upload/ACK_BAP_2020.pdf