Reducing Self-Stigma by Coming Out Proud
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Self-stigma has a pernicious effect on the lives of people with mental illness. Although a medical perspective might discourage patients from identifying with their illness, public disclosure may promote empowerment and reduce self-stigma. We reviewed the extensive research that supports this assertion and assessed a program that might diminish stigma’s effect by helping some people to disclose to colleagues, neighbors, and others their experiences with mental illness, treatment, and recovery. The program encompasses weighing the costs and benefits of disclosure in deciding whether to come out, considering different strategies for coming out, and obtaining peer support through the disclosure process. This type of program may also pose challenges for public health research
Environmental health · Family medicine · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) · Psychiatry · Social stigma · Stigma (botany) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine · Mental Health Treatment and Access · Psychology
O estigma da doença mental
A minority stress perspective on transgender individuals’ experiences with misgendering
HIV-related stigmatization and medication adherence
Stigma resistance at the personal, peer, and public levels
Factors associated with mental health disclosure outside of the workplace
The effects of peer support on empowerment, self-efficacy, and internalized stigma
Intervention mapping as a guide to developing, implementing, and evaluating stigma reduction interventions
Self-stigma and empowerment as mediating mechanisms between ingroup perceptions and recovery among people with mental illness
A mixed-methods study of social identities in mental health care among LGBTQ young adults of color
Accomplishments of 77 VA mental health professionals with a lived experience of mental illness
Interventions targeting mental health self-stigma
The Impact of Mental Illness Stigma on Seeking and Participating in Mental Health Care
Evaluating factors and interventions that influence help-seeking and mental health service utilization among suicidal individuals
The future of mental health care
Examining Effects of Anticipated Stigma, Centrality, Salience, Internalization, and Outness on Psychological Distress for People with Concealable Stigmatized Identities
Peer Support in Mental Health
Stigma Management of Mental Illness
Stigma
Self-stigma and cognitive insight in individuals at ultra-high risk for psychosis
Self-Stigma, Secrecy, and Disclosure Among Chinese with Serious Mental Illness
Addressing stigma within the dissemination of research products to improve quality of care for pregnant and parenting people affected by substance use disorder
Bağimlilik Türleri̇ni̇n Kültürlerarasi Temsi̇li̇
Design and stigma
Leveraging the Strengths of Psychologists With Lived Experience of Psychopathology
Using Motivational Interviewing to Support the Coming Out Process
“We’re Not Miracle Workers”
Mental Health Disclosure in Social Work Education
Tweeting about mental health to honor Carrie Fisher
Discrimination, Social Support, and Identity Development in Relation to Career Agency Among LGB Emerging Adults
Life unites us
Coping With Information Style, Self‐Concealment, Internalized Stigma, and Family Burden Among Parents of Children With Psychiatric Disorders
Disclosure Style and Response Engagement During Disclosures of Concealable Stigmatized Identities
Gender and Ability Oppressions Shaping the Lives of College Students
Stigmatizing attributions towards depression among South Asian and Caucasian college students
Bisexual Identity in the Context of Parenthood
Affected Family Members’ Communicative Management of Opioid Misuse Stigma
Identity Management and Community Belonging
Transgender Dispossession in Transparent
With all due respect, you are a bunch of sociopaths”
From tragedy to advocacy
Suspended transitions and affective orderings
Development and Evaluation of the Atheist Identity Concealment Scale (Aics)
Establishing partnerships with people with lived experience of mental illness for stigma reduction in low- and middle-income settings
Sexual Migration and HIV Risk in a Sample of Brazilian, Colombian and Dominican Immigrant MSM Living in New York City
Disclosing recovery in academia
Randomized Controlled Trial of Expanded Coming Out Group on Reducing Self-Stigma of Schizophrenia People
Behind Closed Doors
Understanding the Relationship Between Peer Support and Grief/Growth in Chinese Shidu Parents
Canadian Sex Workers Weigh the Costs and Benefits of Disclosing Their Occupational Status to Health Providers
I’m Out Here Living My Best Life. Hallelujah on Being Queer!”
Gender Differences in the Relationship Between Coming Out As LGB to Family and Depression in South Korea
Extending the Minority Stress Model to Understand Mental Health Problems Experienced by the Autistic Population
Anti-atheist discrimination, outness, and psychological distress among atheists of colour
An idiographic analysis of women’s accounts of living with mental health conditions in Haredi Jewish communities
Reducing internalized HIV stigma with Intervention Mapping
Patterns of Perceived Hostility and Identity Concealment among Self-Identified Atheists
I dodged the stigma bullet’
Recovery capital and collaborative theatre making
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Online Support Groups for Depression in China
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Gender differences in the processes linking public stigma and self‐disclosure among college students with mental illness
The nuances of “the social cure” for people who experience psychosis
Disclosure in Cystic Fibrosis
Ableism Special Issue Introduction
Atheism as a Concealable Stigmatized Identity
Predicting Self-Esteem and Intentions to Seek Counseling
Vicarious Stigma and Self-Stigma Experienced by Parents of Children with Mental Health and/or Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Unlinking Prostitution and Sex Trafficking
Distinguishing but not defining
The 'Own' and the 'Wise
Anticipated Stigma and Self-Racialization
Negotiating Space
Intersectional internalized stigma among Black gay and bisexual men
Experiences of weight stigma in everyday life
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Mothers' Decisions to Disclose or Conceal Their Child's Mental Health Disorder
Competing perspectives on erasing the stigma of illness
I Didn't Want the Psychotic Thing to Get Out to Anyone at All
Seeking support via mediated channels
The Roots of the Recovery Movement in Psychiatry
Handbook of Social Psychology
On the stigma of mental illness
Stigma and disclosure
The Impact of Illness Identity on Recovery from Severe Mental Illness
Stigma as a Barrier to Recovery
Self‐stigma and the “why try” effect
Staying in the Closet Versus Coming Out
Examining the Factor Structure of the Recovery Assessment Scale
How Young and Older Adults Differ in Their Responses to Perceived Age Discrimination.
Slow and steady wins the race
The Self–Stigma of Mental Illness
Self-Disclosure in Personal Relationships
Self-Stigma in People With Mental Illness
Stigma
Mental Health Consumers' Experience of Stigma
Stigma Management and Well-Being
Stigma as a Barrier to Recovery
The Impact of Belonging to a High School Gay/Straight Alliance
Stigma, Prejudice, and Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men
Perceived Stigma as a Predictor of Treatment Discontinuation in Young and Older Outpatients With Depression
Examining a progressive model of self-stigma and its impact on people with serious mental illness
The authentic personality
Stigma and its impact on help-seeking for mental disorders
Stigma
Well-Being, Agency and Freedom
Rebels with a Cause
Perceiving Discrimination Against One’s Gender Group has Different Implications for Well-Being in Women and Men
Subjective and Objective Indicators of Recovery in Severe Mental Illness
Ethnic Identity Among Chinese-American Youth
Relations Between Narrative Construction of Ethnicity-Based Discrimination and Ethnic Identity Exploration and Pride
Reducing self-stigma in substance abuse through acceptance and commitment therapy
Reactions to an HIV-Positive Man
Attitudes and Self-Images of Male and Female Bisexuals
Two Many and Not Enough
Self and narrative in schizophrenia
Explorations of Lesbian-Queer Genders
Social Involvement, Disclosure of Sexual Orientation, and the Quality of Lesbian Relationships
The Coming‐Out Process and Its Adaptational and Health‐Related Associations Among Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youths
Community Narratives
Self‐stigma and coming out about one's mental illness
Sense of self in recovery from severe mental illness
Men’s Help Seeking for Depression
Psychoeducation to Address Stigma in Black Adults Referred for Mental Health Treatment
The Impact of Self-Stigma and Mutual Help Programs on the Quality of Life of People with Serious Mental Illnesses
What Lessons do Coming Out as Gay Men or Lesbians have for People Stigmatized by Mental Illness
Rethinking social recovery in schizophrenia
Perceiving pervasive discrimination among African Americans
How stigma interferes with mental health care
The Social Psychology of Stigma
A Modified Labeling Theory Approach to Mental Disorders
Labeling Mental Illness
The psychological implications of concealing a stigma
Changes in Psychosocial Well-Being During Stages of Gay Identity Development
Being and Nothingness
Deinstitutionalization, Social Rejection, and the Self-Esteem of Former Mental Patients
The Effects of Stigma on the Psychological Well-Being and Life Satisfaction of Persons with Mental Illness
Standing Out/Fitting In
Return to Sender
Casting a Blind Eye
Conceptualizing Stigma
Ethnicity and Sexuality
The Social Rejection of Former Mental Patients
| Unique citing works | 80 |
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| Citations per year | 6,15 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
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| Citation types | Neutral: 70 |