Mental Stigma Quotes
Collection of top 24 famous quotes about Mental Stigma
Mental Stigma Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Mental Stigma quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
A panic attack is pathological exaggeration of the body's normal response to fear, stress or excitement.
— Abhijit Naskar
A phenomenon that might seem only backwards or silly when expressed at a social level becomes madness at the individual level.
— Caitlin R. Kiernan
Too often the mentally ill are marginalized as people who just can't pull up their socks. If only it were that simple.
— Suzanne F. Kingsmill
My therapist told me that I over-analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this because of his unhappy relationship with his mother.
— Michel Templet
Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.
— Elyn R. Saks
Although enlightened people know that an extreme phobia wasn't a form of madness, hey could not help but regard it as odd.
— Dean Koontz
Even though I know that breaking your brain is the same as breaking your arm, I'm still ashamed that my brain is broken.
— A.S. King
If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of them.
— Shannon L. Alder
Been under treatment for PTSD and bipolar since 1992. I'm not ashamed of my illness. I've been shunned by many and I feel for those shunned, too.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
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.
— Lee Ann Hoff
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.
— Julian Seifter
Unfortunately, mental health is so misunderstood that some people think you have to be crazy to need to speak to a therapist.
— Nicole Curtis
This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.
— Ruby Wax
The stigma of mental illness is still alive and well.
— Kate Clifford Larson
Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know.
— Michael Lewis
I think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago.
— Sally Graham
It's so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse.
— Ruby Wax
The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!
— Patrick W. Corrigan
Officially, it is no more possible to be a little bit OCD than it is to be a little bit pregnant or a little bit dead.
— David Adam