Quotes About Stigma

It's so important that we figure out a way of moving beyond the stigma that still exists around treatment for mental health.

Mental health is just as important as physical health, but why is it that we can't find the same access to mental health treatment as we do for physical health ailments?

We don't want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a personality disorder. And anything that perpetuates that perception is harmful - not only to that member of the community but the entire community.

I suffered a lot when I tried to make sanitary napkins and promote the idea. My family - including my mother and wife - deserted me. Villagers even tied me to a tree and beat me. But after seeing me successful now, they come and say that they all knew that I would become famous one day.

People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite.

I had a stereotype in my mind of what a 'Star Trek' fans is, but I couldn't have been more wrong.

I struggled tremendously with anxiety and depression related in part to my sexuality and growing up in a time when to be gay felt to me like a death sentence.

I don't know if being stereotyped is good or bad. But, that is the trend industry follows.

When I talk about intersex, people ask me, 'But what about the locker room?' Yes, what about the locker room? If so many people feel trepidation around it, why don't we fix the locker room? There are ways to signal to children that they are not the problem, and normalization technologies are not the way.

Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.

As for tattoos, it does no good to remind curmudgeons that tattoos have been around for millennia. Yes, we will agree, tattoos have been common - first among savage tribes and then, more recently, among the lowest classes of Western societies.

It's okay darling, creative people are called crazyall the time.

No matter what I say, honestly, people would only judge me the way they want to.

Suicide isn't cowardly. I'll tell you what's cowardly; treating people so badly that they want to end their lives.

Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea.

I was considered the black sheep of the family, neighbours didn't want their kids playing with me.

Nobody supported me; my family thought I had gone crazy. They thought, you crazy gangster, you crazy drug addict, now you want to be a writer? That's it! They totally gave up on me after that.

Labeled a delinquent. That's the only kind of label I want to be crucified under.

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.

Ask anybody, would you want an ex-madman living next door? It's difficult enough being an ex-convict. It's double hard for us 'madmen'. Please believe it.

Asylums are crazy places, with crazy rules. If you're not mad when you arrive, you are when you leave. (That's if you ever leave.) I was lucky…I got slung out; they couldn't afford to keep me any longer.

I started to develop a penchant for the odd hot foil of smack. After all those years of calling junkies 'the scum of the earth', I had now fallen by the wayside and had become a junkie myself!

From a young boy's viewpoint this could not get any worse, especially when you were told that you belonged to the devil, and this bullying of me went on for a long time.

Did you seriously just stamp your foot? I thought girls only did that on TV.