121 Quotes About Stigma

Above all, I learned that if you talked about how your struggles with mental health impacted you or explained why it caused you to be irrational; you sounded like a victim. But, if you took full responsibility and denied the impacts of mental health, you sounded like a monster. It wasn't like these were the only options I had, but they were the only options most people gave me.

Life is a stigma... stigmation of near existence.

Minority gender identities may become stigmatised as they have bodily expressed meanings that oppose pre-existing cultural norms and standards.

Why should what i weigh affect other people? I mean, unless I'm sitting on them, who cares?

Miss Frumkin rummaged through her bag looking for a spoon. She seemed to be aware that there was no spoon in the bag, but she insisted on rummaging anyway. Finding no spoon, she took out her toothbrush and began to eat the yogurt with the toothbrush. Miss O’Reilly laughed at her. Miss Frumkin didn’t seem to mind. “They laughed at Bell and they laughed at Edison,” she said, throwing the toothbrush into the wastebasket. She finished eating the yogurt with her fingers.

As he spoke, Miss Frumkin looked at her chart, which was directly in front of Dr. Sun, facing him. Reading upside down is one of Miss Frumkin’s talents. It has enabled her, over the years, to read many things not intended for her eyes.

she was counting the brushstrokes when she brushed her teeth — on the rare days that she did brush her teeth.

Be careful of judging or commenting on things beyond your frame of reference. Let us stop the stigma society has attached to sufferers of mental illness. People should not be negatively perceived because of their mental health status; not from an employment perspective, dating perspective, or any other perspective. The diagnosis is not necessarily the measure of the man!

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