{"quotes":[{"text":"The most important gift you can give your children is the importance of standing up to injustice. Children will remember moments spent with you. However, it isn't togetherness that creates humane parents and righteous kids. It is the example of integrity that a parent sets and the on going lessons they teach about compassion toward others throughout their lives. A good father or mother teaches their children that cruelty is not something you cause or ignore, rather it is the moment you suit up for war.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["battles","bravery","bullies","children","civil-rights","compassion","courage","discrimination","fearless","for-the-children","future","generations","god-s-army","god-s-plan","great-parents","illegal-activities","injustice","integrity","joan-of-arc","justice","kids","kindness","lawsuits","life-missions","life-purpose","mental-health-bias","parenting","red-path","redemption","values","war","warriors","warriors-path"],"id":2018,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Silence is for fools. Communication is for leaders. Justice is for those brave enough to not stand another moment dealing with people that feel the solution to any problem is through cold indifference because of their lack of courage and insecurities.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["bias","brilliant-minds","civil-rights","civil-rights-movement","communicators","discrimination","diversity","freedom-from-fear","humanity","justice","leaders","leadership","learn","light-vs-darkness","mental-health-bias","orators","peace-makers","problem-solvers","silence","social-issues","speakers","stayingpositiveu-com","teachers","world-issues"],"id":46989,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["advocacy","autism-spectrum-disorder","bias","bringingchangetomind-com","civil-rights","discrimination","educate","education","end-discrimination","human-rights","mental-health-bias","mental-illness","mental-illness-discrimination","stand-up-for-what-is-right"],"id":52434,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Because drugs have become so profitable, major medical journals rarely publish studies on nondrug treatments of mental health problems.31 Practitioners who explore treatments are typically marginalized as “alternative.” Studies of nondrug treatments are rarely funded unless they involve so-called manualized protocols, where patients and therapists go through narrowly prescribed sequences that allow little fine-tuning to individual patients’ needs. Mainstream medicine is firmly committed to a better life through chemistry, and the fact that we can actually change our own physiology and inner equilibrium by means other than drugs is rarely considered.","author":"Bessel A. van der Kolk","tags":["alternative-therapy","alternative-treatments","clinical-literature","clinical-trial","effectiveness","lack-of-research","medical-journals","mental-health","mental-health-bias","mental-illness","psychiatric-drugs","psychotherapy"],"id":128098,"author_id":"Bessel+A.+van+der+Kolk"},{"text":"I cut myself up really badly with the lid of a tin can. They took me to the emergency room, but I couldn’t tell the doctor what I had done to cut myself—I didn’t have any memory of it. The ER doctor was convinced that dissociative identity disorder didn’t exist. . . . A lot of people involved in mental health tell you it doesn’t exist. Not that you don’t have it, but that it doesn’t exist.","author":"Bessel A. van der Kolk","tags":["denial","dissociative-amnesia","dissociative-disorders","dissociative-identity-disorder","invalidation","mental-health","mental-health-bias","mental-health-stigma","mental-illness-discrimination","mental-illness-stigma"],"id":147494,"author_id":"Bessel+A.+van+der+Kolk"},{"text":"Those with dissociative disorders face a big enough battle living as multiples and dealing with past trauma. Like everyone else, they deserve to be heard and recognised, not stigmatised.","author":"Carol Broad","tags":["anti-stigma","dissociation","dissociative-disorder","dissociative-disorders","dissociative-identity-disorder","mental-health","mental-health-bias","mental-health-problems","mental-health-professionals","mental-health-stigma","mental-health-system","mental-illness","multiple-personality-disorder","multiplicity","not-being-heard","stigma","stigmatised"],"id":445149,"author_id":"Carol+Broad"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}