Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...black vinyl stigma of inferiority would, of course, vanish instantly with the purchase of the right upscale desk accessory. These days, given the vast array of choices, selecting a personal diary has become a bold and precarious act of self-definition. It is fine for Gail Sheehy in Passages to decree that "somewhere between 35 and 45 if we let ourselves, most of us will have a full-out authenticity crisis." Sure, I know it is about time for me to decide who I really am and where I fit in the cosmos. But do I really have to grapple...
...long been anyone's guess just how many Americans suffer from mental illness. For starters, the many kinds of mental disorders are often difficult to diagnose. And the stigma of seeing a psychiatrist prevents many disturbed people from seeking help. Now the National Institute of Mental Health has completed the most extensive study ever of U.S. mental-health problems, and its conclusions are startling. The study, published in the November Archives of General Psychiatry, concluded that about one-third of all Americans suffer from an acute mental illness at some point in their lives...
AIDS still has the stigma in our society of being labeled the "gay men's disease." There is widespread feeling that it isn't something to worry about as long as you're "normal"--some go as far as to label the disease "God's retribution for the sins of gay men." These attitudes are clearly intolerable, and although neither Bush nor Dukakis would ever make such claims, the logic that AIDS is an isolated plague underlies both of the candidates' approaches to the disease...
...times are really changing," Glover says. "I think that stigma has been proven false. Now that some have been given a chance, that perception is falling rapidly...
Columbia's losing streak reached such awesome proportions that opposing teams began to fear it. Who would be the first team to fall to the losing Lions? Who would be the coach to bear the stigma: I lost to Columbia...