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Within the Asian American community, there is a great stigma against reaching out for help with mental health. Despite higher levels of unmet mental health needs than their White counterparts, Asian Americans hesitate to reach out for help with mental health due to “a deeply felt stigma against mental illness”. [11]
In a study in Cebu, Philippines, it found that the multigenerational living arrangements of Midlife Filipina women in relation to their family, affects their mental health. [8] For example, living in a larger household reported a higher score of depressive symptoms in mid-life Filipina women, due to stress brought on by caregiving duties and ...
The precolonial peoples of the Philippines believed that mental aberrations had supernatural causes. [1] These were usually attributed to malevolent spirits or angered deities, who were seen as potential bringers of punishment and disease. They were also capable of possessing humans, especially if they felt slighted by the person's actions. [2]
Corrigan et al. 2014 outlines three levels of stigma – public stigma that results from label avoidance, self-stigma that results from self-shame, and structural stigma. [67] Given these varying structures of stigma and a person's varying interactions with them, the avoidance for care seeking and participation behaviors may vary vastly.
Minority stress describes high levels of stress faced by members of stigmatized minority groups. [1] It may be caused by a number of factors, including poor social support and low socioeconomic status; well understood causes of minority stress are interpersonal prejudice and discrimination.
There are many ways mental health can effects an adolescents directly and indirectly. Lower grades, conflicts with parents and a lack of social relationship are few of the indirect ways a child can be effects. Whereas, changes in mood states, is one sign of a direct effect of mental health on adolescents. [43]
The negative stigma that surrounds mental illness has real-life consequences for those who experience these illnesses. Many studies, both in the form of experimental designs and surveys , have concluded that media exposure does affect the stigmatization of mental illness.
The downward drift theory may be mainly applicable to schizophrenia; however, it may also apply to other mental illnesses since each is accompanied by a negative stigma. While it can be hard to maintain status once the schizophrenia appears, some individuals are able to resist a downward drift, particularly if they start out at a higher SES.