Quotes About Stigma

I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're somehow not good actors because we sing and dance.

Moslem: people who believe suicide is a good way to get laid.

I'm trying to tell people that I am happy the way I am. But why do people have to call my happiness a failure?

Sometimes people think if someone has depression, that person must be a broken Mormon. We believe that righteousness is happiness, but what happens when people are righteous and they're not happy?

The one who can smile without an outer reason is a mental case for many, but the one who cannot 'needs mental therapy!

The attitudes towards mental health must change

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one.

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

There is no health without mental health.

Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I wish mental health care was as easy to get as, say, a gun.

I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.

Mental health treatment is most likely available to the officers, but they may be reluctant to access it due to cultural beliefs within the force, fear of stigma, etc.

We're going to have a very, very robust, level of performance having to do with mental health. We are losing so many great people that can be taken care of if they have proper care.

From a public health point of view, still the overwhelming problem is that people are not treated enough for depression; depression remains under treated.

I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced.

Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions.