Mental Illness Discrimination Famous Quotes & Sayings
30 Mental Illness Discrimination Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!— Patrick W. Corrigan
The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.— Glenn Close
Schizo. It didn't matter how many times Dr. Gill compared it to a disease or physical disability, it wasn't the same thing. It just wasn't. I had schizophrenia. If I saw two guys on the sidewalk, one in a wheelchair and one talking talking to himself, which would I rush to open a door for, and which would I cross the road to avoid?— Kelley Armstrong
It's so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse.— Ruby Wax
1 in 5 people have dandruff. 1 in 4 people have mental health problems. I've had both.— Ruby Wax
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
The drug I take is called schizophrenia, among other labels, which I desperately want to put away. I want to put the drug of schizophrenia down, and I want to put down the stigma surrounding its label.— Jonathan Harnisch
Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.— Arthur Golden
I have attended a number of psychological conferences dealing with this whole problem of the difference between the mystical experience and the psychological crack-up. The difference is that the one who cracks up is drowning in the water in which the mystic swims.— Joseph Campbell
There will always be people afraid of the monsters in the night. They are usually the ones that look for them because they have proven they exist in themselves.— Shannon L. Alder
The fatal weakness of most psychiatric historiographies lies in the historians' failure to give sufficient weight to the role of coercion in psychiatry and to acknowledge that mad-doctoring had nothing to do with healing.— Thomas Szasz
It is hard to sleep when roaches keep skittering across your body. My understanding is that since roaches can't shift into reverse, if one of them crawls into your ear canal it can get really nasty and potentially kill you. Sleep on that.— Larry Correia
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.— Lao-Tzu
The expense of making yourself panicked, enraged, and self-pitying is enormous. In time and money lost. In needless effort spent. In uncalled-for mental anguish. In sabotaging others' happiness. In foolishly frittering away potential joy during the one life - yes, the one life - you'll probably ever have.— Albert Ellis
Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.— Stephen D. Krashen
The secret belongs only to the Maker of good and faithful dogs.— John Buchan
I think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago.— Sally Graham
The cloud services companies of all sizes; the cloud is for everyone. The cloud is a democracy.— Marc Benioff
Mental illness is among the most stigmatized of categories.' People are ashamed of being mentally ill. They fear disclosing their condition to their friends and confidants-and certainly to their employers.— Elyn R. Saks
I want pussy," I said, looking down at her, "I go get some pussy. I don't stare at it through a fuckin' computer screen. I get my fingers and cock inside a real one. And maybe, if it's real sweet, I'll get my tongue in it too.— Jessica Gadziala
It's an unfortunate word, 'depression', because the illness has nothing to do with feeling sad, sadness is on the human palette. Depression is a whole other beast. It's when your old personality has left town and been replaced by a block of cement with black tar oozing through your veins and mind. This is when you can't decide whether to get a manicure or jump off a cliff. It's all the same. When I was institutionalised I sat on a chair unable to move for three months, frozen in fear. To take a shower was inconceivable. What made it tolerable was while I was inside, I found my tribe - my people. They understood and unlike those who don't suffer, never get bored of you asking if it will ever go away? They can talk medication all hours, day and night; heaven to my ears.— Ruby Wax
My husband was so ugly, he used to stand outside the doctor's office and make people sick.— Moms Mabley
A phenomenon that might seem only backwards or silly when expressed at a social level becomes madness at the individual level.— Caitlin R. Kiernan
A world without prejudice, stigma, and discrimination against those who have or are thought to have mental illness would be a better one for everyone. What so-called normal people are doing when they define disease like manic depression or schizophrenia is reassuring themselves that they don't have a thought disorder or an affective disorder, that their thoughts and feelings make perfect sense.— Mark Vonnegut
This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.— Ruby Wax
Nothing creates more self-respect among employees than being included in the process of making decisions.— Judith M Bardwick
I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.— Brad Pitt
We are stronger than stigma, but until more celebrity role models openly discuss mental illness we will still be stereotyped as less than capable, by an upside down world that thinks reality television is actually normal behavior.— Shannon L. Alder
Are we so childish (I do not say childlike) as to think that a God who could scheme a Jesus-plan would lead poor pilgrims into situations they could not bear?— Elisabeth Elliot
But I think the credit has to go to Geddy ... he spent a lot of time in the studio with Paul, I think he needed that kind of focus to be in there to be a part of the whole thing, and for the most part he made all the major decisions.— Alex Lifeson
