极速赛车168最新开奖号码 Comments on: Where does the stigma around care-experienced people originate from? https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2025/02/11/stigma-care-experienced-readers-take/ Social Work News & Social Care Jobs Fri, 14 Feb 2025 15:10:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Anonymous https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2025/02/11/stigma-care-experienced-readers-take/#comment-362558 Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:48:46 +0000 https://www.communitycare.co.uk/?p=215447#comment-362558 Everyone who works in a corporate environment, private sector or public sector including in social work, is ‘institutionalised’, it the inevitable end point of bureaucracy and rules. I don’t think that should come as a surprise. How you define stigma though might be less easy to do. We think we know it, we think we can identify it, we think we fight against it but perhaps it’s more honest to acknowledge that we might not be. To my mind attributing blanket opinions onto others is another form of stigma. Growing up in the care system, foster and institutional care, only equips me to comment on the people who cared or who neglected or who abused me. Neither I nor Mr Sissay would have known what motivated staff who we did not have any contact with nor about the experiences of other care recieving children let alone adults as we weren’t adults then. The ready to internalise negative experiences as “originating” within the care system is a cop out. We are the system and we can’t depersonalise that away from ourselves by blaming the “system”. I had brilliant care staff who I would have loved to be my parents and friends and others I had very unpleasant murderous emotion about. Accepting that systems mitigate against love is a start to learn how to love. Feeling virtuous through self flagellation is just self indulgent.

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