Quotes About Stigma

I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory.

It does not mean you're broken to have depression and anxiety. I would encourage you to speak out. Don't hold it inside. Talk to friends. Talk to parents. If it's available, go to a therapist.

There are more than enough people with serious mental issues who really do need professional help without all the other Toms, Dicks and Harriets rushing to the therapist's couch.

You know, I keep getting cast as douchebags. I might speak to my therapist about that.

Back then, people thought if you could talk you didn't have autism. I was just seen as this slightly odd child. I saw another therapist aged 12, and another in my early 30s.

In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.

I always had a dissociative disorder. But I healed from it over the course of 14 years of big-time therapy. But, you know, I mean, everybody's kind of loony now. So I was kind of a pioneer in the mental illness thing, too.

I love therapy. I talk about it a lot because I feel like, especially among black people, it's stigmatized.

I think black men especially should go to therapy and seek out mental help, because we need it. Even if you don't think you need it, we need it.

I've never, ever had any therapy. Some might say I need it, but I've never seen a shrink or a psychologist or anything like that.

There's a stigma on the word 'therapy.' People relate it to big problems. That's something we have to change. Going to therapy can be very healthy. It can change the way you see things and treat others.

A lot of times, especially in the black community, where therapy is talked about, it's like, 'Just go to church.'

I didn't know anything was wrong with me when I was growing up. I thought everyone went to occupational and speech therapy, I thought these were common things. I thought I was quite normal until I went to school and someone told me it wasn't normal to have a disability.

I've struggled a lot with therapy because it's got a stigma to it, and also, it's really gotta work for you, I've found.

I'm not afraid to admit I have therapy. It's nothing to be ashamed of, and it really does help.

I believe that the healthy people go to therapy. It is the real lunatics who avoid it.

Therapy shouldn't be taboo, if it's going to clear your head.

There is no shame in therapy, no shame in seeking help.

I'd always been dead against therapy. I didn't think you needed to pay someone to talk about yourself.

I had severe PTSD and anxiety, but it was the '80s, and I didn't have a name for it. I don't think my mother even thought, like, 'Maybe I should take her to therapy.' I thought I could handle it because I'm tough.

Like, when they say to me, 'Screamin' A.' - I'm the only dude on the air who's loud? I know plenty of white dudes who are screaming and going off. They're called passionate. I'm called loud.

If an athlete plays the guitar, they say, 'That's so cool, he can play the guitar.' But if a guy raps, they say, 'Please don't be another rapper,' only because the rappers are so bad. I promise I'm not anything like that.

Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.

When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.