Mental Illness Stigma Quotes
Mental Illness Stigma Quote of the day
Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?
The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!
Self-stigma refers to the state in which a person with mental illness has come to internalize the negative attitudes about mental illness and turns them against him- or herself.
I keep moving ahead, as always, knowing deep down inside that I am a good person and that I am worthy of a good life.
While a psychiatric diagnosis can serve a purpose in treatment plans, it should not become a tool to discredit a person's disclosure of abuse.
It’s hard to imagine a more squarely on-the-nose example of demonizing mental illness than portraying a mentally ill man as a literal demon.
A phenomenon that might seem only backwards or silly when expressed at a social level becomes madness at the individual level.
It's so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse.
Too often the mentally ill are marginalized as people who just can’t pull up their socks. If only it were that simple.