Stigma is a social process or related experience characterized by exclusion, rejection, blame or devaluation that results from an adverse social judgment about a person or group [23] based on attribute, trait or disorder that makes an individual as being unacceptably different from the normal people with whom he or she routinely interacts. Wide range medical conditions are stigmatized e.g. leprosy [24], cancer [25], mental illness [26–28] and epilepsy [29, 30]. Stigmatization occurs on societal, interpersonal, and individual levels [31]. Numerous studies have shown that stigma has detrimental consequences for the psychological well-being of stigmatized individuals[32, 33]. Stigmatized individuals can attempt to mitigate the negative psychological and social impact of stigmatization (e.g. depression, anxiety, isolation, reduced social network, limited social support) by employing a variety of coping strategies [31].