Quotes about Stigma

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They will hate you if you are beautiful. They will hate you if you are successful. They will hate you if you are right. — Shannon L. Alder
One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as we — Ellis Peters, The Heretic's Apprentice
When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel allowed to celebrate. — Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Mental illness" is among the most stigmatized of categories.' People are ashamed of being mentally ill. They fear disclo — Elyn R. Saks, Refusing Care: Forced Treatment and the Rights of the Mentally Ill
We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play — Charles E. Schaefer
Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disable — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swall — Nicole Lyons, Hush
...women's bodies are "inferiorised, stigmatized . . . within an overarching patriarchal ideology.For example, biologica — Sheila Jeffreys, Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West
Mental illness People assume you aren’t sick unless they see the sickness on your skin like scars forming a map of all t — Emm Roy, The First Step
A common misconception is that some people are only in pain because they are weak, anxious, depressed, or do not deal we — Tasha Stanton
Sometimes, this disapproval of how you are managing your pain crosses over to disbelief that you are in as much pain as — Murray J. McAlister
People should know about us. Girls who write their pain on their bodies. ~Louisa — Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
Disclosures of childhood sexual abuse have frequently been discredited through the diagnosis of hysteria. In this view, — Judith L. Alpert, Sexual Abuse Recalled
What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation about illnesses that affect not only — Glenn Close
Some of the most evil human beings in the world are psychiatrists. Not all psychiatrists. Some psychiatrists are selfles — Rebecca McNutt
The drug I take is called schizophrenia, among other labels, which I desperately want to put away. I want to put the dru — Jonathan Harnisch, Second Alibi: The Banality of Life
I have schizophrenia. I am not schizophrenia. I am not my mental illness. My illness is a part of me. — Jonathan Harnisch, Jonathan Harnisch: An Alibiography
The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die. — Juliette Lewis
Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain i — Andrea Dworkin, Intercourse
Although there are more than six million documents on the Internet addressing the issue of ritual abuse, few take as fai — Freda Briggs