Stigma Influence on Mental Illness the Recovery

Stigma Influence on Mental Illness the Recovery
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Stigma influence on the recovery process for people with mental illness
Introduction
Stigma is described as an occasion where there is a negative view perception on a particular
characteristic or attribute such as culture, skin, disability or mental illness. Stigma occurs
when an individual perceives or defines another person through the lens of illness as of their
states (Pescosolido et al., 2013). Among persons with mental health-related issues, stigma is a
common phenomenon in the recovery pathway. This review offers an avenue of
understanding this underlying matrix of stigma on the recovery process among persons with
mental health illness.
The mental health recovery process
The treatment process for mental illness often compounds a mix of pharmacological and non-
pharmacological processes having an aim to reduce the level of symptoms and disabilities
linked to the mental state. Despite these, persons affected by this disease do not seek out and
engage in the recovery avenues process (Corrigan, Druss and Perlick, 2014). Fundamental
factor entailing this characteristic habit entails stigma related issues. The complex elements
of stigma and other fundamental aspects play a critical role in the care process of mental
illness persons.
Mental illness has a varied effect on the overall person’s life inclusive of physical health,
relationships, employment and individual education. Widespread attitude thoughts for the
people with mental illness has led to being an enabling ground for harmful violations of basic
human rights such as access to mental care management (Seeman, Tang and Brown, 2016).
The associative behaviour hampers efforts to improve the overall mental health states. These
negative attitudes hamper mental health-seeking behaviour. This alters the effect of seeking
treatment, reducing the overall support of care towards the mental service arena reducing the
overall availability of mental health care system services. This overall aspect limits the
recovery process of mental health care (Fox, Earnshaw, Taverna & Vogtt, 2018).
Influence of stigma
Stigma has been viewed in the prism of depicting mental health illness as a dangerous and
unpredictable disease leading to discrimination in various avenues. These entail exclusion
from employment conditions, social avenues, educational avenues and medical settings. In