This may result in a higher rate of unemployment, lower earnings and greater feelings of demoralization.

In a recently published Social Psychology Quarterly study, Dr. Amy Kroska, Kent State associate professor of sociology, examined how the stigma of mental illness affects patients who have recently been diagnosed with a mental disorder. Specifically, she found that patients’ perceptions of the mentally ill affect the way they see themselves and that these perceptions may exacerbate their mental illness.-Kent State University