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.
Stigma means different things to different people. This is one dictionaryâs definition: âThe shame or disgrace attached to something regarded as socially unacceptable. There may be a feeling of âus and themâ. People who are stigmatised are marked out as being different and are blamed for that difference.