Quotes About Stigma

A lot of people are ashamed to talk about mental illness. To me, it's power to give people that.

People get really irritated by mental illness.

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

When you read about it, you realize that mental illness is so prevalent. People didn't always have the right terms for it, but most families have had a brush with it.

Everyone has some sort of connection to mental illness.

As no one knew much about my mental illness, a lot of people had the attitude that I had the capability to 'kick it' and get better instantly. This was the most frustrating attitude for me.

I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.

A lot of people are living with mental illness around them. Either you love one or you are one.

I know what mental illness looks like, and I know that if a person is not ready to get help, they won't.

People accuse me of glamorizing mental illness. Looking back sometimes, that's true. But I don't feel guilty.

Mental illness affects everyone.

With mental health, it's not like there's a box where you're healthy and another box where you've got a mental illness. You try to stay at the healthy end of the continuum, and watch as you move, and I've been able to do that.

We know how to treat depression, we know how to treat mental illness, and we have not had the political will in our country to make it happen.

Living with mental illness is not a choice and can lead to debilitating circumstances.

Once you can accept that you have a mental illness, that is when you can work on it.

I want to work with faith-based leaders to address the negative attitudes that are still too often associated with mental illness, attitudes that hold people back from getting the help that they need.

I have an illness. I have a mental illness. I've accepted that now. Before, I used to beat myself up all the time, but the more you talk about it, the more it takes the power out of it.

I know what it's like to feel marginalized and defeated and humiliated by suffering from a mental illness.

My honesty about mental illness has helped open a door for real conversation, and I think Justin wants to continue that conversation. He has put no restrictions on me. His father couldn't. Why should he try?

Mental illness is a fact of life, like cancer or heart disease.

We need to be open about mental illness, and demand the mental health services we need.

We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer.

I was diagnosed as mentally retarded as late as the fourth grade.

I'm either mentally ill or Jewish. I can't sometimes tell the difference.