Quotes About Stigma

Yet people still don't think depression really that bad. If they did, they wouldn't say the things they say.

Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead.

You are no less or more of a man or a woman or a human for having depression than you would be for having cancer or cardiovascular disease or a car accident. So what should we do? Talk. Listen. Encourage talking. Encourage listening. Keep adding to the conversation. Stay on the lookout for those wanting to join in the conversation.

A million people a year kill themselves. Between ten and twenty million people a year try to. Worldwide, men are over three times more likely to kill themselves than women.

Why do so many men still kill themselves? What is going wrong? The common answer is that men, traditionally, see mental illness as a sign of weakness and are reluctant to seek help. Boys don't cry.

I am just saying if you knew about me there would be a very strong chance you would think I was insane.

Sadness seemed to me like a disease, and I worried it was contagious.

Depresiv". Toat? lumea ar purta o etichet? dac? ar întreba specialistul potrivit.

I rarely said "I have depression" or "I am currently experiencing depression", because I imagined that depression was the sum of who I was... the trouble is, that I had a very binary view of things. I thought that you were either well or ill, sane or insane.

Keep reiterating, again and again, that depression is not something you "admit to," it is not something you have to blush about, it is a human experience.

Ignore stigma. Every illness had stigma once. We are getting ill, and fear tends to lead to prejudice before information. Polio used to be erroneously blamed on poor people, for instance. And depression is often seen as a "weakness" or personality failing.

Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead. But the definition of mad, on Earth, seems to be very unclear and inconsistent. What is perfectly sane in one era turns out to be insane in another.

Problemen met de geestelijke gezondheid zijn geen: Massahysterie. Modegril. Bevlieging. Trend bij sterren. Gevolg van toegenomen bewustzijn van geestelijke problematiek. Gemakkelijk gespreksonderwerp. En: geestelijke problemen zijn niet meer wat ze geweest zijn.

And it doesn't have to be writers. I was one of millions of people not just saddened by Robin Williams's death, but scared of it, as if it somehow made it more likely for us to end up the same way.

So what, you have a label? "Depressive." Everyone would have a label if they asked the right professional.

It's easy not to judge people for having an illness, its a lot harder not to judge people for how the illness occasionally caused them to behave. Because people can't see the reasons.

Si ce, ai o eticheta? "Depresiv". Toata lumea ar purta o eticheta daca ar intreba pe specialistul care trebuie.

poor white trash became the subject of extensive public debates in the antebellum period.

how could authorities distinguish between a white person who was merely poor by circumstance and one who was biologically predisposed to poverty, crime, and low social standing?

social sanitation

For poor whites, some of the most pernicious, invidious, and damaging distinctions imposed by eugenicists were those that focused on intelligence and cognitive skills, areas of human ability that these professionals regarded as key to establishing and organizing a just and meritocratic democracy.

I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.

Even catholics have hail marys. Jews only have guilt.

Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.