Just thinking here & some thoughts that habe hit me on this topic:

Its difficult to not have some negative feelings that hurt my own life so badly because I didnt recognize the signs before getting involved & marry this person. The thing is that when we are wounded we tend to recognize the weapons we were hurt by & avoid them in the future even if it was a mental illness or condition. After so many years of living with it, it becomes more recognizable in others especially when observing that their behaviors create the same problems with others thst you lived around for so many years before finally escaping that environment.

I think for many instead of that just staying as an AWARENESS of the behavior it gets turned into stigma because of the negative effect it has caused.

I dont think stigma eoyld exist IF there weren't negative outcomes involved with the behaviors involved. Anything that creates a negative consequence has a stigma attached to it not just mental illness & yes, ehen that negative consewuence directly effects someone it is a lot more difficult to remove stigma thinking from the way they see it....being from within ourselves or those whise lives we have touched.

This (stigma) definitely applies to more than just mental illness & is not something that can be broken since the negative consequences that create the stigmas continue to occur. There will always be those who continue to generalize also which only feeds into stigma. Peoples thoughts cant be controlled & we wouldn't want our iwn thoughts controlled....stigmas will always exist as it seems to be the way the mind handles things that arebdifferent & create negative consequences.