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.
Cliff Gilley, Studied Sociology (Criminology / Social Psychology) at the UW as an undergrad. Views. Stigma is the process through which social circles ostracize members who violate their mores and standards. One who violates the mores and standards of a social circle is deviant. A member of a social circle can be deviant without being stigmatized, but rarely is a member of a social circle stigmatized without being deviant.