Quotes About Depression Stigma

#1. I think sometimes you just need to play in this league. As a rookie coming out of college, you don't understand the real significance of being a pro unless you're playing other pros. It doesn't help you to play sporadically here or there.

Michael Cooper

#2. The casual listener won't be around forever.

Mike Shinoda

#3. I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.

Jennifer Ellison

#4. The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.

Clara Hughes

#5. I hated these visits, because I kept feeling the visitors measuring my fat and stringy hair against what I had been and what they wanted me to be, and I knew they went away utterly confounded.

Sylvia Plath

#6. In 2008, my one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Sophia, suffered a grand mal seizure. It came from nowhere, for no apparent reason, and took hold of my little fairy-girl.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#7. Stop shying away from people. If you actually took a moment to listen to what they have to say, they might just say something that will change your life.

S.R. Crawford

#8. Stigma is particularly cruel for depressives, because stigma affects thoughts and depression is a disease of thoughts.

Matt Haig

#9. Can you imagine looking at forever and knowing you'll always be alone?

Jennie Hendrickson

#10. No one wants to admit that they suffer from a mental illness, because of the stigma," I said. "Both of us suffer from major depression. He knows that I've been through a lot of the same things that he's going through now.

Patrick J. Kennedy

#11. For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.

Chester Bennington

#12. I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.

Victoria Chang

#13. There's nothing worse than bottling something up inside and letting it eat at you. It's like being shot, and leaving the bullet inside our bodies. The wound would never heal. Instead, we need to let it out.

S.R. Crawford

#14. The fact that I didn't even love myself was just enough to know it's time to change. I accept that not many are able to help, let alone, understand the troubles that lie within.

H.M. Gautsch

#15. Carry the flame of love and light to everyone you meet.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you is agony indeed.

Sally Brampton

#17. Oh, hell, I can't go on a spiritual journey - I'm constipated.

Molly Ivins

#18. I really enjoyed my degree, for me it was the best course you can do. To be able to study the brain and nervous system and the mind with a scientific approach is just incredible! Its philosophical, psychological and biological, three very interesting areas to me.

Freddie Stroma

#19. Too often the mentally ill are marginalized as people who just can't pull up their socks. If only it were that simple.

Suzanne F. Kingsmill

#20. I think a sense of humor is the emotional equivalent of a sense of realism. One should not take everything seriously, and everybody takes some things seriously.

Michael Maccoby

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

Ruby Wax