Stigma Quotes
Brains are like toddlers. They are wonderful and should be treasured, but that doesn't mean you should trust them to take care of you in an avalanche or process serotonin effectively.
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.
Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you is agony indeed.
Stop shying away from people. If you actually took a moment to listen to what they have to say, they might just say something that will change your life.
Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.
Those that have lost their lives to suicide were good people, who were in deep, deep pain. Keep speaking about mental illness and keep it out of the darkness.
Too often the mentally ill are marginalized as people who just can’t pull up their socks. If only it were that simple.
Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.
...the issue becomes not whether a person has experience with a stigma of his own, because he has, but rather how many varieties he has had his own experience with.
Although enlightened people know that an extreme phobia wasn't a form of madness, hey could not help but regard it as odd.
People say the darkness is where secrets are best hidden. Night time brings clarity and focus to owls, even if the aperture of this vision comes with a stigma.
Your hearing status doesn't make you a better person. Your humanity does.
To actually accept that you have an eating disorder or a mental health issue is actually a sign of great, great strength. It is not a sign of weakness at all.
A panic attack is pathological exaggeration of the body’s normal response to fear, stress or excitement.
Unfortunately, mental health is so misunderstood that some people think you have to be crazy to need to speak to a therapist.
A phenomenon that might seem only backwards or silly when expressed at a social level becomes madness at the individual level.
Beautiful things have been broken before…
Sometimes the people around you won't understand your journey. They don't need to, it's not for them.
Denial and minimizing is often seen in genuine PTSD and, hence, should be a target of detection and measurement.
The unique stigma of PTSD. The stigma of PTSD remains one of the most formidable barriers to effective care.
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.
Even though I know that breaking your brain is the same as breaking your arm, I'm still ashamed that my brain is broken.
To resist a compulsion with willpower alone is to hold back an avalanche by melting the snow with a candle. It just keeps coming and coming and coming.
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.
