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Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.
– Elyn R Saks

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  1. My good fortune is not that I’ve recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life. – Elyn R Saks
  2. The simple truth is, not every fight can be won. – Elyn R Saks
  3. I think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago. – Sally Graham
  4. The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue! – Patrick W Corrigan
  5. Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all. – Bill Clinton
  6. The unique stigma of PTSD. The stigma of PTSD remains one of the most formidable barriers to effective care. – Michael A Cucciare
  7. I have schizophrenia. I am not schizophrenia. I am not my mental illness. My illness is a part of me. – Jonathan Harnisch
  8. Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry. – Abhijit Naskar
  9. Medical Science Has Determined Envy, Anger Are Responsible For Plethora Of Medical Conditions – Sunday Adelaja
  10. If you demand the collective to pay for your medical expenses, then be prepared for the collective to demand to make your medical decisions for you. – AE Samaan
  11. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness – a real thorough-going illness. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  12. I shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They were all fixed faces, full not of possibilities but impossibilities, – CS Lewis
  13. Always give chance for the things you don’t want. Cause sometimes they turn out to be the great things you’ll ever have. – Elyn Balongcas
  14. Even if love were considered a mental illness, that would not prevent it from being a pleasant one. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  15. When it comes to mental illness most of the diagnoses are similar or the same yet they can never display how we individually go through our pain. – Stanley Victor Paskavich
  16. When you have mental illness it’s common to be shunned by your family or friends it wouldn’t happen if they knew the pain you were in. – Stanley Victor Paskavich
  17. Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes. – Thomas J Scheff
  18. Grief is NOT a mental illness or an emotional disorder. Anyone who tells you otherwise has never experienced it for themselves. – Rebecca McNutt
  19. There is a dead space between most people and those afflicted with Mental Illness and it’s called Understanding – Stanley Victor Paskavich
  20. Progression and regression go hand in hand with mental health. It is a tough illness. You often take one step forward and ten steps back. – Theresa Larsen
  21. In the terms of ‘Mental Illness’ Isn’t stable a place they put horses that wish to run free? – Stanley Victor Paskavich
  22. I admit I have Mental Illness so please no more ‘Fruit Cakes’ for Christmas Please – Stanley Victor Paskavich
  23. Supposedly there’s an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I’ve seen it with my own eyes. – Deb Caletti
  24. Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent – Elizabeth Wurtzel
  25. I used mental illness as a springboard to rest of my life. – Clive Culverhouse
  26. I used my mental illness as a springboard to the rest of my life. – Clive Culverhouse
  27. It is in my head! That’s why it’s called Mental Illness. – Roni AskeyDoran
  28. Mental illness is not in the business of making sense of itself. – Roni AskeyDoran
  29. I graciously survived depression, mental-illness and attempt of suicide. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  30. As special as it is to listen to your friends argue over whether or not you have a mental illness,I’m starting to get the urge to go back to class. – Kendare Blake
  31. During my mental illness, thank God, my grandma was my human rescuer and angel, she ask me to stop taking the medication, leading to the recovering. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  32. If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well. – Barbara Ehrenreich
  33. Racism is a common delusion, a mental illness that can be cured with truthful education. – Wayne Gerard Trotman
  34. I have a mental illness, but that doesn’t stop me from being mentally capable. – Lisa M Cronkhite
  35. It’s hard to imagine a more squarely on-the-nose example of demonizing mental illness than portraying a mentally ill man as a literal demon. – Charles Bramesco
  36. I’ve accepted the fact I have mental illness but when my imaginary friends start calling me crazy that’s where I draw the line – Stanley Victor Paskavich
  37. Successful writing is a slow, daily, meticulous form of mental illness. – Don Roff
  38. Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism. – Shannon L Alder
  39. Why do they always prescribe thyroid medicine to go with the mental illness ????tails they whip up? – Stanley Victor Paskavich
  40. There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul. – R Alan Woods

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