{"quotes":[{"text":"To resist a compulsion with willpower alone is to hold back an avalanche by melting the snow with a candle. It just keeps coming and coming and coming.","author":"David Adam","tags":["mental-health","mental-health-stigma","ocd","willpower"],"id":469,"author_id":"David+Adam"},{"text":"My mother smiled. 'I knew my baby wasn't like that.'I looked at her. 'Like what?'Like those awful people. Those awful dead people at that hospital.' She paused. 'I knew you'd decide to be all right again.","author":"Sylvia Plath","tags":["choice","decision","depression","hospital","mental-health","mental-health-stigma","stigma"],"id":4396,"author_id":"Sylvia+Plath"},{"text":"Anxiety is the monster that resides within.","author":"Karon Waddell","tags":["anxiety","anxiety-attack","anxiety-disorders","mental-disorders","mental-health","mental-health-stigma"],"id":14218,"author_id":"Karon+Waddell"},{"text":"In 2006, there is no army of recovered memory therapists, and Dr McNally’s assumptions about patients with PTSD and those working in this field are troubling. Owing to past debates, those working in the PTSD field are perhaps more knowledgeable than others about malingered, factitious, and iatrogenic variants.Why, then, does Dr McNally attack PTSD as a valid diagnosis, demean those working in the field, and suggest that sufferers are mostly malingered or iatrogenic, while giving little or no consideration is given to such variants of other psychiatric conditions? Perhaps the trauma field has been “so often embroiled in serious controversy” (4, p 816) for the same reason Dr McNally and others have trouble imagining the traumatization of a Vietnam War cook or clerk. One theory suggests that there is a conscious decision on the part of some individuals to deny trauma and its impact. Another suggests that some individuals may use dissociation or repression to block from consciousness what is quite obvious to those who listen to real-life patients.'Cameron, C., \u0026 Heber, A. (2006). Re: Troubles in Traumatology, and Debunking Myths about Trauma and Memory/Reply: Troubles in Traumatology and Debunking Myths about Trauma and Memory. Canadian journal of psychiatry, 51(6), 402.","author":"Colin Cameron","tags":["denial","dissociation","iatrogenic","malingering","mental-health-stigma","mental-illness-discrimination","ptsd","recovered-memory-therapists","repression","society-denial","trauma-memory","trauma-survivors","traumatized"],"id":29843,"author_id":"Colin+Cameron"},{"text":"It's so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse.","author":"Ruby Wax","tags":["crazy","depression","discrimination","mental-health-stigma","mental-illness","prejudice","stigma"],"id":58974,"author_id":"Ruby+Wax"},{"text":"Even though I know that breaking your brain is the same as breaking your arm, I'm still ashamed that my brain is broken.","author":"A.S. King","tags":["mental-health","mental-health-stigma"],"id":65458,"author_id":"A.S.+King"},{"text":"I keep moving ahead, as always, knowing deep down inside that I am a good person and that I am worthy of a good life.","author":"Jonathan Harnisch","tags":["depression","depression","depression-recovery","fighting-mad","mental-health","mental-health","mental-health-stigma","mental-illness","mental-illness-stigma","optimism","optimism","optimist","optimistic","optimistic","ptsd","ptsd","recovery","schizophrenia"],"id":69419,"author_id":"Jonathan+Harnisch"},{"text":"Results of two independent factor analyses of the survey responses of more than 2000 English and American citizens parallel these findings (19,33):- fear and exclusion: persons with severe mental illness should be feared and, therefore, be kept out of most communities;- authoritarianism: persons with severe mental illness are irresponsible, so life decisions should be made by others;- benevolence: persons with severe mental illness are childlike and need to be cared for.'World Psychiatry. 2002 Feb; 1(1): 16–20.PMCID: PMC1489832Understanding the impact of stigma on people with mental illnessPATRICK W CORRIGAN and AMY C WATSON.","author":"Patrick W. Corrigan","tags":["itarianism","benevolence","bias","blame","dangerousness","discrimination","exclusion","fear","mental-disorder","mental-health","mental-health-stigma","mental-illness","prejudice","rejection","severe-mental-illness","stigma"],"id":74939,"author_id":"Patrick+W.+Corrigan"},{"text":"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.","author":"Sylvia Plath","tags":["change","comparison","depression","distortion","mental-health","mental-health-stigma","society","stigma","transformation"],"id":77862,"author_id":"Sylvia+Plath"},{"text":"When you go into the psych ward, you can’t have anything with you except colored pencils. You can’t have any electronics. If you have a drawstring on your pants, a belt, shoelaces, a hood, or extra-long fabric, your very clothes are ripped off your back. They search you with a metal detector like you’re a criminal, doing everything short of putting their hand up your butt. Before you go through those cold, automatic, barred doors, you know your life is not your own. This is especially true during the first week, while you stare at florescent lighting and wait impatiently for your meds to kick in. I wish I had remembered the psych ward prison cell a week ago. If I had, maybe I wouldn’t be wearing this hospital gown that they gave me until I can get more compliant clothes.","author":"Jacquelyn Nicole Davis","tags":["book","memoir","mental-health-stigma","painful-memories","psych-ward","psychology"],"id":82844,"author_id":"Jacquelyn+Nicole+Davis"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":75,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}