Quotes about Stigma

Explore a curated collection of 179 quotes about Stigma at QuotesRead.com. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words on Stigma from famous authors and thinkers around the world.

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, Still Life with Tornado
To resist a compulsion with willpower alone is to hold back an avalanche by melting the snow with a candle. It just keep — David Adam, The Man Who Couldn't Stop
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, The Man Who Couldn't Stop
Resistance to change in the mental health system comes disguised as protection of civil liberties and freedom of speech. — Tamara Hill, Mental Health In A Failed American System: What Every Parent, Family, & Caregiver Should Know
Despite the growing clinical and research interest in dissociative symptoms and disorders, it is also true that the subs — Paul H. Blaney, Oxford Textbook of Psychopathology
The stigmatization and the excruciating pains of social alienationhave compelled most victims to conceal their status wh — Oche Otorkpa, The Unseen Terrorist
The spurned diagnosisShame"By shame, I have in mind the terrible, at times unfathomable, feeling of being outcast from h — Elizabeth Howell, Knowing, Not-Knowing and Sort-Of-Knowing: Psychoanalysis and the Experience of Uncertainty
Every time you feel like mocking a person you disagree with politically by implying that they are mentally ill, I want y — Ariel Howland
Imagine you’re diagnosed with epilepsy: what would you think if you weren’t referred to a specialist but taken to a psyc — Tanya Marlow
The age-old, seemingly inexorable process whereby diseases acquire meanings (by coming to stand for the deepest fears) a — Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors
The history of hysteria is a history of the relation between the colonizing father and the colonized devalued other. — Judith L. Alpert, Sexual Abuse Recalled
At times I am flabbergasted that my memory is considered false and my alcoholic father's memory is considered rational a — Jennifer J. Freyd
In my view, the spurning of DID is highly connected with knowing and not knowing about child sexual abuse. Side by side — Elizabeth Howell, Knowing, Not-Knowing and Sort-Of-Knowing: Psychoanalysis and the Experience of Uncertainty
In his recent guest editorial, Richard McNally voices skepticism about the National Vietnam Veteran’s Readjustment Study — Colin Cameron
In 2006, there is no army of recovered memory therapists, and Dr McNally’s assumptions about patients with PTSD and thos — Colin Cameron
Some people have the experience of being accused of lying when they do not think that they have lied. Circle a number to — Frank W. Putnam, Diagnosis and Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorder
...it really struck me that, just as people might look at me and never imagine I'd worked as a prostitute, they must loo — Sophie Hayes, Trafficked: My Story of Surviving, Escaping, and Transcending Abduction Into Prostitution
We are stronger than stigma, but until more celebrity role models openly discuss mental illness we will still be stereot — Shannon L. Alder
Although stigmatizing attitudes are not limited to mental illness, the public seems to disapprove persons with psychiatr — Patrick W. Corrigan