“Healing begins when we stop hiding pain and start honoring it with compassion and care.” — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
“As special as it is to listen to your friends argue over whether or not you have a mental illness,I'm starting to… — Kendare Blake Copy Share Image
“The history of hysteria is a history of the relation between the colonizing father and the colonized devalued other.” — Judith L. Alpert Copy Share Image
“I had people saying 'it's all in your head'. Do you honestly think I want to feel this way?” — Sonia Estrada Copy Share Image
“Mental health care is not optional, it’s foundational to how we live, love, and lead.” — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
“Your mind deserves the same attention, rest, and nourishment you give your body, perhaps even more.” — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
“My body is not my enemy. It just overreacts to things sometimes and that's actually OK.” — Maggy van Eijk Copy Share Image
“At the base of whatever form of mood swing are individual experiences, the gradual or complete focus on issues that we have… — Precious Avwunuma Emodamori Copy Share Image
“self-stigma is not a person's fault; nor is it a part of the person's illness! If the public did not hold negative… — Patrick W. Corrigan Copy Share Image
“Self-stigma refers to the state in which a person with mental illness has come to internalize the negative attitudes about mental illness… — Patrick W. Corrigan Copy Share Image
“Black men are also notorious for posing as cool and above-it-all instead of expressing joy and happiness. This is one of the… — Jor-El Caraballo Copy Share Image
“In reviewing his own moral career, the stigmatized individual may single out and retrospectively elaborate experiences which serve for him to account… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
“There needs to be a nationwide awareness programme for all NHS staff, to educate them about dissociative disorders. Diagnoses need to be… — carol broad Copy Share Image
“We must understand that those who experience abuse as children, and particularly those who experience incest, almost invariably suffer from a profound… — Cameron West Copy Share Image
