Category: Stigma and Health Care

By Ashley Habig Stigma is a very prevalent problem in mental health care that does not get talked about often enough. Stigma is often rooted in experiences and cultures people are surrounded by growing up, but can be broken down … Read more

By Baylee Materia “Well, it was pretty darn scary,” recalls Don Chaplin when asked about the early days of the HIV epidemic in North Carolina (Chaplin 0:34:45-0:34:50). An openly gay physician, Chaplin bore witness to an aggressive, unsympathetic social and … Read more

By Harrison Hayes Introduction “A cluster of negative attitudes and beliefs that motivate the general public to fear, reject, avoid and discriminate against people… Stigma is about disrespect. It is the use of negative labels to identify a person living with … Read more

By McKenzie Roller In her interview with the Southern Oral History Project, Chasity Hargrove, a white woman from Newton Grove, NC, shares some details of her mother’s battle with mental illness. Hargrove describes how her mother “would try to medicate … Read more