121 Quotes About Stigma

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.

Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.

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.

Once you were marked, the mark stayed with you; visible to all, misunderstood by most, feared by many.