78 Quotes About Mental-disorder

They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness.

I had people saying 'it's all in your head'. Do you honestly think I want to feel this way?

You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

Denial and minimizing is often seen in genuine PTSD and, hence, should be a target of detection and measurement.

Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know.

People who live with mental illnesses are among the most stigmatized groups in society.Fighting the stigma caused by mental disorders: past perspectives, present activities, and future directions. World Psychiatry. Oct 2008; 7(3): 185–188. PMCID: PMC2559930

I think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago.