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.
There is a powerful stigma attached to suicide. Until the 1900s suicide was viewed as a sin rather than an illness. Stigma is a type of rejection that suicide survivors may feel. Athena du Pre explains stigma,  stigma refers to a type of social rejection in which the stigmatized person is treated as dishonorable or is ignored altogether(pg.209).