123 Quotes About Mental-health-stigma
- Author Glenn Close
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The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.
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- Author Michael Lewis
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Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know.
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- Author Heather Stuart
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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
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- Author Sally Graham
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I think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago.
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- Author Kierra C.T. Banks
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And sometimes it's as simple as changing your environment.
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- Author Courtney Summers
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You don't have to be our worst case, to be a worthy case.
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- Author Jonathan Harnisch
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I have schizophrenia. I am not schizophrenia. I am not my mental illness. My illness is a part of me.
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- Author Fuad Alakbarov
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It's exhausting to fight a war inside your head every single day. Mental health issues are people’s everyday lives. And, as a society, we need to accept that.
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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Diseases of the mind can be more torturous than the diseases of the body.
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