The scholarly sources that speak about stigma focus primarily on the social cognitive structures that cause stigma to exist in the first place, while popular sources tend to speak to the way that stigma impacts a person. Two particular scholarly sources approach stigma from a sociological perspective and respectively define internal and external sources of stigma. In the first article, the author defines internal stigma as “an identity transformation in which a person with severe mental illness loses previously held or hoped for identities and adopts stigmatizing views” (Yanos). This article continues with an analysis of a particular study conducted by the authors which tested the hypothesis of the “impact of internalized stigma on recovery-related