Quotes About Stigma

The world is not at all short on this type of thing, it turns out. All down the years, words have been flung like pieces of shit, only to get stuck on a truck bumper with up-yours pride. Rednecks, moonshiners, ridge runners, hicks. Deplorables.

Tommy showed me one with the actual headline "Blight On the Nation." Another one said "smudge on the map," that he'd highlighted with yellow marker.

And my husband, why, hell hath no fury like a Baptist preacher.

It divided me from the people I knew, then and later, but in broader human terms I don't pretend that it sets me apart in any great way. A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention it, and they go on from day to day as if it hadn't happened, and so people imagine that a woman in this situation never really knew or loved what she had

All down the years, words have been flung like pieces of shit, only to get stuck on a truck bumper with up-yours pride. Rednecks, moonshiners, ridge runners, hicks. Deplorables.

but born in the mobile home, so that's like the Eagle Scout of trailer trash.

I'm not alive." She heard fury climbing to the top of his voice. "I'm a leper. Outcast unclean. Lepers are ugly and filthy. And abominable." His words filled her with horror and protest. "How can it be?" she moaned. "You are not—abominable. What world is it that dares treat you so?

Compassion and acceptance; stigma and defusion. As described thus far, acceptance and defusion seem, superficially, to be intrapsychic issues, but self-as-context expands their nature. Because perspective taking is social, it is not possible to take a loving, open, accepting, and active perspective on yourself without doing likewise for others.

They may accuse you of consorting with witches or communists or even economists.

the same time, the mental health professions, and perhaps the culture at large, has been lowering the bar for what counts as a mental illness.

Until they do, these older and less-educated people (mainly white men)

I love challenging the notion that, in order to be a tech founder, you have to be holed up in a dark room wearing a T-shirt and baggy jeans.

I love ebola jokes. When done in the right way, maybe it gets people to learn about ebola, to learn about the stigmas behind the identities held by Africans and so on.

Dona Rosàlia non avrebbe mai creduto che una prostituta si potesse suicidare per amore. Una prostituta si uccide per castigo dei suoi peccati, amen.

People believe that madness is when you don't think as they do, which is why they take me for a madman.

People believe that madness is when you don't think as they do

People believe that madness is when you don't think as they do, which is why they take me for a madman." -Old Tasio

As long as society is anti-gay, then it will seem like being gay is anti-social.

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

One of the downsides of working in philosophy is that it attracts a lot of people with mental-health problems.

Because that was what we all did—we searched for labels for people until we found one we thought might fit, and then we sighed in relief that we had placed them.

Children should be judged on what they are -- a punishment for an early marriage.

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated "all my homosexual patients are quite sick" - to which I finally replied "so are all my heterosexual patients."