Quotes About Stigma

Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today.

To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.

Most women are frequently labelled "insane" for expressing their misery and failing to act positive. It is form of misogynistic abuse that is also about pushing women towards the doctor's room, the therapists couch, and the chemist.

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

On top of everything else, Boobie's got the clap.

I don't mind a bit being labelled a suicide.

It may now be deemed 'normal' to wear cut-off shorts, expose bellybuttons, marry someone of either gender and watch a little porn for fun, but it also remains indispensably 'normal' to believe that true love should be monogamous and that one's desire should be focused exclusively on one person. To be in dispute with this founding principle is to risk being dismissed, in public or private, with that most dispiriting, caustic and shameful of all epithets: pervert.

Social workers are bastards,

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

Shame based on sexual status, whether it is because of lots of sexual activity or none at all, is wrong.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb . . . And I also know that I'm not blonde.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb - and I'm not blonde either.

The rules of perception in show business were broken: if they're Black then it's a gang; if Italian it's the mob; but if they're Jewish then it's a coincidence and you should never speak about it. — Dave Chappelle (Never say never. — Dom Mascara) Contract negotiation is like braces: it sucks the entire time and then as soon as you get them off, you forget you ever had them. Richard Sherman

I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground.

Good God!" he said. "Are you a faculty wife?

I'm naming my son just what he is. I'm a whore and he is my son. If he grows up ashamed of me, the hell with him. That's what I'm wantin' to name him, and that's what it's goin' to be. Whoreson!

Christian name hell! I'm naming my son just what he is. I'm a whore and he is my son. If he grows up ashamed of me, the hell with him. That's what I'm wantin' to name him, and that's what it's goin' to be. Whoreson!

The thing I don't say is: I want to stay alive. The reason I don't say it is because, given that fat folder in front of him, he'd never believe it. And here's something else he'd never believe—I'm fighting to be here in this shitty, messed-up world. Standing on the ledge of the bell tower isn't about dying. It's about having control. It's about never going to sleep again.

Often, mental and emotional illnesses go undiagnosed because the person suffering symptoms is too ashamed to speak up, or because their loved ones either fail to or choose not to recognize the signs.

I want to get away from the stigma they all clearly feel just because they have an illness of the mind as opposed to, say, an illness of the lungs or blood. I want to get away from all the labels. "I'm OCD," "I'm depressed," "I'm a cutter," they say, like these are the things that define them.

The only crime I committed was being fat.

People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.

Listen, I'm the freak. I'm the weirdo. I'm the troublemaker. I start fights. I let people down. Don't make Finch mad, whatever you do. Oh, there he goes again, in one of his moods. Moody Finch. Angry Finch. Unpredictable Finch. Crazy Finch. But I'm not a compilation of symptoms. Not a casualty of shitty parents and an even shittier chemical makeup. Not a problem. Not a diagnosis. Not an illness. Not something to be rescued. I'm a person.