Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes.
– Thomas J Scheff
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- Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry. – Abhijit Naskar
- Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to protect the people from themselves. – AE Samaan
- I have schizophrenia. I am not schizophrenia. I am not my mental illness. My illness is a part of me. – Jonathan Harnisch
- The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior. – Boyd K Packer
- I preferred to think of myself as a cat. If I think of my behavior as cat behavior instead of people behavior, it pretty much always makes sense. – Jael McHenry
- The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue! – Patrick W Corrigan
- If you want to be sure of unusual thing such as aliens or UFOs, then you have to think about it from an unusual way of thinking. – Toba Beta
- Minds need the unusual, because the unusual has the power to shake the mind! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Unusual doors often take you to the unusual worlds! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- There is a young abused girl whose recovery is dependent on your willingness to honour your calling as a pastor, social worker, psychologist, etc. – DS Mashego
- I don’t subscribe to labels. Unless I’m labeling other people. – Gaby Dunn
- A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society. – Edward Abbey
- When angry, count to Zen. – Leonard Scheff
- I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness – a real thorough-going illness. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Metaphysics is not the result of understanding the limitations of physics.It’s rather the result of the limitation in understanding physics. – MR Shabanali
- Time will come and riding horses will be seen by the whole society as a severe animal rights violation! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, being an artist is an excuse for a form of behavior. – William Faulkner
- In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, it’s an excuse for a form of behavior. – William Faulkner
- Others behavior towards us is a reflection of our own behavior, it’s a MIRROR. – Harrish Sairaman
- All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem. – Michael Crichton
- It’s not a secret that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. – Lee Johnson
- The worst tragedy of sin isn’t that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love. – DR Silva
- We have changed our moral code to fit our behavior instead of changing our behavior to harmonize with God’s moral code. – Billy Graham
- For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt. – Michael Crichton
- 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
- 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
- Grief is NOT a mental illness or an emotional disorder. Anyone who tells you otherwise has never experienced it for themselves. – Rebecca McNutt
- I used my mental illness as a springboard to the rest of my life. – Clive Culverhouse
- It is in my head! That’s why it’s called Mental Illness. – Roni AskeyDoran
- Mental illness is not in the business of making sense of itself. – Roni AskeyDoran
- 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
- If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well. – Barbara Ehrenreich
- Racism is a common delusion, a mental illness that can be cured with truthful education. – Wayne Gerard Trotman
- I have a mental illness, but that doesn’t stop me from being mentally capable. – Lisa M Cronkhite
- 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
- 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
- Successful writing is a slow, daily, meticulous form of mental illness. – Don Roff
- Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism. – Shannon L Alder
- Why do they always prescribe thyroid medicine to go with the mental illness ????tails they whip up? – Stanley Victor Paskavich
- 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