Self-stigma in patients with major depressive disorder: An exploratory study from India.
Bichitra Nanda PatraVaibhav PatilYatan Pal Singh BalharaSudhir K KhandelwalPublished in: The International journal of social psychiatry (2020)
Stigma due to having depression acts as a barrier to vocational & social integration and functional recovery. Concealment of the diagnosis of depression is itself barrier for help seeking and to receiving appropriate treatment. Small sample size and adopting the purposive sampling method are the limitations of the study.