{"quotes":[{"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":"On Major Depression, quoted by the great William Styron of Sophie's Choice \u0026 Darkness Visible:From Darkness Visible, William Styron'It is a positive and active anguish, a sort of psychical neuralgia, wholly unknown to normal life.","author":"William Styron","tags":["depression","pain","stigma","suffering"],"id":6303,"author_id":"William+Styron"},{"text":"With DID patients, if they feel hostility or aggression they take it out on themselves with self-harm... They’re self-destructive and repeatedly suicidal, more so than any other psychological disorder. So that's what's typical – not this wild aggression, or stalking women [or robbery].- Dr Bethany Brand, on Billy Milligan and Multiple Personality Disorder (DID).","author":"Bethany L. Brand","tags":["billy-milligan","dissociative-identity-disorder","insanity","mental-disorder","mental-illness","misconception","misrepresentation","multiple-personalities","multiple-personality-disorder","self-harm","self-injury","split-personality","stereotypes","stigma","suicidal","suicidality","suicide","the-crowded-room"],"id":28670,"author_id":"Bethany+L.+Brand"},{"text":"...It really struck me that, just as people might look at me and never imagine I'd worked as a prostitute, they must look at some of those girls and see only the alienation and disaffection that hides their on fears and hurt.","author":"Sophie Hayes","tags":["alienation","disaffection","prostitution","stereotyping","stigma","teenagers"],"id":36442,"author_id":"Sophie+Hayes"},{"text":"Success and failure can both make you lose appetite and concentration, don't let it bother or over-excite you, just think them away as a mere thing that had just happened, and get along with your life.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["appetite","bad-news","believe-in-yourself","bore","boring","excitement","failure","food","getting-along","go-on","let-go","let-it-go","never-give-up","optimism","sad","sadness","stigma","stigmatization","stop-and-think","trauma"],"id":40245,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"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":"I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again.","author":"Nicole Lyons","tags":["bipolar-disorder","bipolar","chaos","creativity","depression","life","life","madness","madness-and-sanity","manic-depression","mental-health-awareness","mental-health","mental-illness","mental-illness","mind","mindfulness","mood-disorders","paranoia","quote","of-the-day","about-life","racing-thoughts","self-deception","self-destruction","stigma","stillness-of-the-mind","suicidal-ideation","suicidal-thoughts"],"id":73264,"author_id":"Nicole+Lyons"},{"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":"Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.","author":"Bill Clinton","tags":["bias","judgmental","mental-disorder","mental-health","mental-health-stigma","mental-illness","prejudice","steroetypes","stigma"],"id":83387,"author_id":"Bill+Clinton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":84,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}