1,815 Quotes About Mental-illness

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation about illnesses that affect not only individuals, but their families as well.

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.

The Parents, as my mother and father refer to Mr. Finch and Mrs. Finch, are insisting it was an accident, which, I guess, means we're free to mourn him out in the open in a normal, healthy, unstigmatised way. No need to be ashamed or embarrassed since suicide isn't involved.

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.

This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.

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.

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.