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 (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

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

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

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