Quotes About Stigma

Even prostitutes, alcoholics, embezzlers - I won't rehearse the whole catalogue - need health insurance.

People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.

Jail has become the biggest mental health hospital.

1 in 5 people have dandruff. 1 in 4 people have mental health problems. I've had both.

This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.

Veterans are generally reluctant to seek mental health care.

We all talk to ourselves. Those we call mad just talk a little louder.

We take our kids for physical vaccinations, dental exams, eye checkups. When do we think to take our - our son or daughter for a mental health checkup?

Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment.

Change the way we all talk to each other about our mental health.

We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health.

I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.

I was what they call a 'highly functional addict.' ... sometimes people who need help look nothing like people who need help.

I'd like to see a world where, if a teenager fears she's seeing/hearing things, she feels as comfortable seeking help as she would if she found a lump on her leg.

The word 'Sudra' which means 'Son of prostitute' should not find a place even in the history hereafter. We will not allow it to find a place in the dictionary or encycl

They're lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They're a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.

Well I have a drug history and a public drinking problem and I am not the healthiest guy. So they just ran that I died of a drug overdose.

Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it.

I appeal: Learn with me the lessons of history and of grace, so my children will not be afraid to say the word 'AIDS' when I am gone. Then, their children and yours may not need to whisper it at all.

I have never met a woman who works who doesn't feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home.

It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad.

By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.

The thing about stereotyping is it's usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it.

I hope I can help guys come out and say, 'All right, dude, I got a manicure...and I liked it.'