Quotes About Stigma

It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a male star?

Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) is a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success.

In France, it's very suspect when you have a success.

Lots of people hate gay people. You can tell who they are because they start sentences with, It's not like I hate gay people.

She's not a demon, she's a woman," my mother said sadly. "In this case, that's worse.

Poverty in girls is not attractive unless combined with sweet sluttishness, stupidity.

Men, however, were encouraged to sow their wild oats, but a woman who did so became a social outcast and ruined her chances of making a good marriage.

The power to label is the power to destroy.

W]ay too much treatment is given to the normal worried well who are harmed by it; far too little help is available for those who are really ill and desperately need it. Two thirds of people with severe depression don't get treated for it, and many suffering with schizophrenia wind up in prisons. The writing is on the wall.

Overcoming problems on your own normalizes the situation, teaches new skills, and brings you closer to the people who were helpful. Taking a pill labels you as different and sick, even if you really aren't. Medication is essential when needed to reestablish homeostasis for those who are suffering from real psychiatric disorder. Medication interferes with homeostasis for those who are suffering from the problems of everyday life.

It is equally dangerous at either extreme - to have either an expanding concept of mental disorder that eliminates normal or to have an expanding concept of normal that eliminates mental disorder.

We should not have the ambition to label as mental disorder every inconvenient or distressing aspect of childhood.

Labels can also create self-fulfilling prophecies. If you are told you are sick, you feel and act sick, and others treat you as if you are sick.

Her mother had always warned her a man is judged by his best moment, a woman by her worst.

But being a bastard was crime and punishment both.

Joann sabía que la esclerosis múltiple no era más que una etiqueta, como la de «madre», «esposa» o «jefa».

heterosexuality is considered an emotional dysfunction. Relatively easy to cure.

That's what I mean. I thought it was only in filthy places no one wants to go, like Chernobyl and Detroit.

She didn't like to feel things so intensely. It reminded her of being crazy.

Popular prejudice always dies slowly, especially among those individuals most anxious about their own deteriorating economic situation and unstable social status.

The more I learn, the clearer it becomes to me that blaming fatness for sickness is a view unsupported by scientific literature.

We have been systematically misinformed about what depression and anxiety are.

To the prohibitionists, Hannah is a failure, because she continued using drugs. To the Portland, she was a success, because she knew she was loved. One day, a very senior government minister came to visit the safe injection rooms, and to meet the addicts. He asked Liz: "What percentage of people who use this place would you consider to be write-offs?" She paused and looked at him, trying to figure out how to tell him that the answer is none.

The damaged 10 percent, by contrast, are the only people we ever see using drugs out on the streets. The result is that the harmed 10 percent make up 100 percent of the official picture. It