123 Quotes About Mental-health-stigma
- Author Megan Chance
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Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.
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- Author Judith Lewis Herman
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...some patients resist the diagnosis of a post-traumatic disorder. They may feel stigmatized by any psychiatric diagnosis or wish to deny their condition out of a sense of pride. Some people feel that acknowledging psychological harm grants a moral victory to the perpetrator, in a way that acknowledging physical harm does not.
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- Author Ariel Howland
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Every time you feel like mocking a person you disagree with politically by implying that they are mentally ill, I want you to instead imagine you are talking to every single person who actually is mentally ill and telling them they are worthless. That's how it makes mentally ill people feel. Doesn't seem very progressive now does it?
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- Author Ruby Wax
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Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?
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- Author Ruby Wax
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It's so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse.
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- Author Carolyn Spring
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And if we do speak out, we risk rejection and ridicule. I had a best friend once, the kind that you go shopping with and watch films with, the kind you go on holiday with and rescue when her car breaks down on the A1. Shortly after my diagnosis, I told her I had DID. I haven't seen her since. The stench and rankness of a socially unacceptable mental health disorder seems to have driven her away.
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- Author Ruby Wax
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1 in 5 people have dandruff. 1 in 4 people have mental health problems. I've had both.
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- Author Nathaniel Lee
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They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.
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- Author Elyn R. Saks
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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.
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