Why is there still a stigma (bias) related to having a mental illness that we have to guard each client’s priv

Why is there still a stigma (bias) related to having a mental illness that we have to guard each client’s privacy so closely?|||Even if there were not stigma or bias, a person's mental health, or even physical health, is their own private business. You'd have to guard it whether or not their were stigma.|||All medical information is guarded closely whether it relates to mental illness or not. Would you want your doctor to announce to the whole world that you have haemmorhoids? Or genital warts? Or thrush? Some things are just private. A better question would be why is there such a stigma attached to mental illness that it is hard to get decent treatment for it?|||All medical conditions are, by law, private. No person involved in the medical field can discuss any diagnosis, mental or physical, with any person not involved in that case. Any medical condition can lead to discrimination. This is why there are such stringent privacy laws.





Here is a link to HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. http://www.hipaa.org/