123 Quotes About Mental-health-stigma
- Author Sonia Estrada
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I had people saying 'it's all in your head'. Do you honestly think I want to feel this way?
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- Author Erving Goffman
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In reviewing his own moral career, the stigmatized individual may single out and retrospectively elaborate experiences which serve for him to account for his coming to the beliefs and practices that he now has regarding his own kind and normals.
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- Author Ken Kesey
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that fool Public Relations man who’s always clapping his wet hands together and saying how overjoyed he is that mental hospitals have eliminated all the old-fashioned cruelty
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- Author Patrick W. Corrigan
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The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!
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- Author Patrick W. Corrigan
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self-stigma is not a person's fault; nor is it a part of the person's illness!If the public did not hold negative and stigmatizing attitudes in the first place, these would never have become internalized, causing people the painful and disabling experience of self-stigma.
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- Author carol broad
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Those with dissociative disorders face a big enough battle living as multiples and dealing with past trauma. Like everyone else, they deserve to be heard and recognised, not stigmatised.
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- Author Julian Seifter
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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.
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- Author Bill Clinton
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Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.
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- Author Ruby Wax
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This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.
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