Word: stigma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Going public has not been easy for Jamison, 49. As a therapist, she well knows the stigma that mental frailty carries, and she worried about the effect her confession would have on her patients and colleagues. Some patients were shocked when she told them, she recalls. "They said, 'You're so normal, so Brooks Brothers. You don't look like you've had a problem in your life.'" But she was "tired of the waffling," she says. "My pro fessional life is devoted to helping people understand and accept this disease. And if a professor at Hopkins...
This year, in a departure from past practice, the competitors' height and weight are not listed in press releases, and several coaches took pains to note to reporters that they have no scales in their gyms. "We didn't like the stigma that we were driving people out of the sport," admits Kathy Kelly, women's program director for USA Gymnastics. "We're making an effort to respect the athletes." That put out of bounds questions about the effects of widening hips and budding breasts, though the more womanly shapes were evident in the scanty leotards worn by the competitors...
...should age be a stigma in the workplace. As many middle-aged executives will tell you, the race is not necessarily to the young, and should not be. As the retirement age continues to move upward and life-expectancy increases, returning to a career at 35 or even 40 should not exclude workers from reaching high levels of management. After all, they still have 30 or more productive years left...
Alcoholism used to be a secret held close, known only to the sufferer's loved ones, and carrying a harsh social stigma. But anyone walking the streets of downtown San Diego last weekend would have seen little sign that any of the estimated 60,000 recovering alcoholics and Al-Anon members attending the Alcoholics Anonymous convention there were anything but loud and proud. Celebrating the group's 60th anniversary, participants from 72 countries sporting first-name-only registration badges flashed smiles and offered greetings to the people they passed along the San Diego waterfront...
...report," she says, although a copy was sent to her last week. Charles Murray, who glowingly accepted O'Neill's work when it first appeared, now says, "I never thought some small family-cap disincentive would work. I think the key to what's happening here is the growing stigma that's attaching to illegitimacy across the population." The Heritage Foundation's Robert Rector, who more than anyone else used O'Neill's work to urge copycat laws elsewhere, says, "I never expected O'Neill's results in the first place, but even if she's wrong, giving new money...