69 Followers. A. An internist or primary care physician is often able to treat uncomplicated autoimmune disease. But with the advent of new therapies, specifically biologics which require very skilled management, care by a rheumatologist is desirable.
Stigma is broadly defined as a collection of adverse and unfair beliefs. The stigma around mental health most often leads to the inaccurate and hurtful objectification of people as dangerous and incompetent.
A stigma is a powerful negative social label that radically changes a person's self-concept and social identity. Stigmas are deepened by retrospective labeling, the interpretation of someone's past consistent with present deviance.