secondary gain

American  

noun

Psychiatry.

1. any advantage, as increased attention, disability benefits, or release from unpleasant responsibilities, obtained as a result of having an illness (distinguished from primary gain).

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Example Sentences

Participants answered 12 questions to assess two types of stigma: whether they felt others viewed migraine being used for secondary gain and whether they felt others were minimizing the burden of migraine.

From Science Daily • Jan. 17, 2024

While the clapperboard oversight may have scotched the original release, Elliott feels it created a secondary gain.

From The Guardian • Apr. 8, 2019

But this result was only a secondary gain, a meager consolation for the negative fact that no real mutability could be discovered.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de

When sick people receive too much secondary gain they never get well.

From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor by Solomon, Steve