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Understanding and Coping with Stigma: This is the 11th in a Series of Articles About How to Tell Others About Your Or Your Child's Epilepsy (Coping with Epilepsy and Stigma: Part Eleven) (Report)

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Title: Understanding and Coping with Stigma: This is the 11th in a Series of Articles About How to Tell Others About Your Or Your Child's Epilepsy (Coping with Epilepsy and Stigma: Part Eleven) (Report)
Author : The Exceptional Parent
Release Date : January 01, 2010
Genre: Marketing & Sales,Books,Business & Personal Finance,Professional & Technical,Education,
Pages : * pages
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Having a disability or chronic health condition saddles the person with more than just the physical complaint. One has to struggle with the social meaning of that disorder as well. Often society is not very accepting of illness and disability and the person affected becomes stigmatized as a result. Stigma is a common problem among the disabled community. It not only affects the person with the disability, but may extend to include his or her whole family as well. The person is shunned. Social opportunities are denied. Self-esteem suffers. I'm sure you know the drill. Stigma is an interesting animal. For millennia stigma served a vital role in preserving the welfare of human society. There were two main types of stigma applied to persons. One was the stigma applied to the person who could not be trusted or who somehow posed a threat to society's values. This was the stigma reserved for robbers, murderers, the lower classes, and slaves. Persons considered treacherous or capable of harming others if given the opportunity. Of course, the stigma was not always fair, especially in the case of lower classes and slaves, who could be honorable and compassionate people. But overall, the discrimination kept the social classes safe from the possibility of threat.