Quotes Tagged With :stigma

We have a genuine and devastating epidemic of opiate abuse in this country, and it is of critical importance....

Mental illness" is among the most stigmatized of categories.' People are ashamed of being mentally ill.....

When we criticize the suicidal for being selfish, we are actually criticizing them for not enduring their....

The drug I take is called schizophrenia, among other labels, which I desperately want to put away. I....

Success and failure can both make you lose appetite and concentration, don't let it bother or over-excite....

Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active....

Sometimes, this disapproval of how you are managing your pain crosses over to disbelief that you are....

Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every....

When you go into the psych ward, you can’t have anything with you except colored pencils. You can’t....

I have schizophrenia. I am not schizophrenia. I am not my mental illness. My illness is a part of me.....