Mental Illness Discrimination Quotes

#1. I'm a real big country boy.

Tom Felton

#2. The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!

Patrick W. Corrigan

#3. I think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago.

Sally Graham

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

Ruby Wax

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

Ruby Wax

#6. Been under treatment for PTSD and bipolar since 1992. I'm not ashamed of my illness. I've been shunned by many and I feel for those shunned, too.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#7. Mental illness is among the most stigmatized of categories.' People are ashamed of being mentally ill. They fear disclosing their condition to their friends and confidants-and certainly to their employers.

Elyn R. Saks

#8. There will always be people afraid of the monsters in the night. They are usually the ones that look for them because they have proven they exist in themselves.

Shannon L. Alder

#9. People tolerate those they fear further than those they love.

E.W. Howe

#10. Life will just not wait for us to live it:
We are in it, now, and Now is the time to Live

Michelle Geaney

#11. For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.

Radha Mitchell

#12. When I'm looking for something, I say, 'Man that's ugly - nobody would want to rock that.' Then I grab it and I put it on.

Slim Jimmy

#13. The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

Glenn Close

#14. Palestinians are not victims in need of aid, they are an occupied & oppressed people in need of freedom.

Remi Kanazi

#15. We are stronger than stigma, but until more celebrity role models openly discuss mental illness we will still be stereotyped as less than capable, by an upside down world that thinks reality television is actually normal behavior.

Shannon L. Alder

#16. The drug I take is called schizophrenia, among other labels, which I desperately want to put away. I want to put the drug of schizophrenia down, and I want to put down the stigma surrounding its label.

Jonathan Harnisch

#17. A phenomenon that might seem only backwards or silly when expressed at a social level becomes madness at the individual level.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#18. The fatal weakness of most psychiatric historiographies lies in the historians' failure to give sufficient weight to the role of coercion in psychiatry and to acknowledge that mad-doctoring had nothing to do with healing.

Thomas Szasz

#19. It's so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse.

Ruby Wax