Internalized stigma, as I understand it. One example could be a person with a psychotic mental illness referring to themselves as "psychotic" and seeing the illness as their whole identity.
I think it’s often justified to own the things about us that contribute to or affect who we are, albeit in a non-wholly-consuming way.
For my part, as an example, it took me a long time to accept - physiologically or psychologically, with terrible consequences - that I was so chronically ill I could no longer do any of the myriad things that had previously contributed to defining who I was.
It took an (aborted) attempt at CBT and then a lot of counselling, then time, for me to finally accept my disability (which I did see as a stigma then) and that it was part of who I am now.
+1 answer in: “Are you prone to self-stigmatization? In what way, if any?”
For my part, as an example, it took me a long time to accept - physiologically or psychologically, with terrible consequences - that I was so chronically ill I could no longer do any of the myriad things that had previously contributed to defining who I was.
It took an (aborted) attempt at CBT and then a lot of counselling, then time, for me to finally accept my disability (which I did see as a stigma then) and that it was part of who I am now.
