--- title: "8 Self-stigma Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 8 Self-stigma quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Self-stigma sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54a/erving-goffman-18642_faith_in-reviewing-his-own-moral-career-the-st_86417.jpg" --- > [“In reviewing his own moral career, the stigmatized individual may single out and retrospectively elaborate experiences which serve for him to account…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erving-goffman/in-reviewing-his-own-moral-career-the-stigmatized-individual-may/) [Erving Goffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erving-goffman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54a/erving-goffman-18642_faith_in-reviewing-his-own-moral-career-the-st_86417.jpg) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-w-corrigan/self-stigma-is-not-a-person-s-fault-nor-is-it-a-part-of-the-person-s/) [Patrick W. Corrigan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-w-corrigan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b7/patrick-w-corrigan-84825_first-place_self-stigma-is-not-a-person-s-fault-nor_439053.jpg) > [“Self-stigma refers to the state in which a person with mental illness has come to internalize the negative attitudes about mental illness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-w-corrigan/self-stigma-refers-to-the-state-in-which-a-person-with-mental-illness/) [Patrick W. Corrigan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-w-corrigan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e99/patrick-w-corrigan-84825_identity_self-stigma-refers-to-the-state-in-which_451921.jpg) > [“Jenny couldn't believe herself a multiple. She was a mother, a nurse, not that screwball who appeared on the screen like some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judy-byington/jenny-couldn-t-believe-herself-a-multiple-she-was-a-mother-a-nurse/) [Judy Byington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judy-byington/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/548/judy-byington-42036_dissociation_jenny-couldn-t-believe-herself-a-multipl_625233.jpg) > [“Of course, I should have known the kids would pop out in the atmosphere of Roberta's office. That's what they do when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-jamieson/of-course-i-should-have-known-the-kids-would-pop-out-in-the/) [Alice Jamieson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-jamieson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c8/alice-jamieson-21585_alter-personalities_of-course-i-should-have-known-the-kids-w_639730.jpg) > [“By developing a contaminated, stigmatized identity, the child victim takes the evil of the abuser into herself and thereby preserves her primary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-lewis-herman/by-developing-a-contaminated-stigmatized-identity-the-child-victim/) [Judith Lewis Herman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-lewis-herman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22e/judith-lewis-herman-19218_abuse_by-developing-a-contaminated-stigmatized_1643521.jpg) > [“Self-stigma can be just a big a problem as the negative attitudes of others.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/megan-a-arroll/self-stigma-can-be-just-a-big-a-problem-as-the-negative-attitudes-of/) [Megan A. Arroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/megan-a-arroll/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f0/megan-a-arroll-87090_chronic-illness_self-stigma-can-be-just-a-big-a-problem_1971450.jpg) > [“~~You are not alone~~ No, really. Literally. Maybe you have always known (or suspected) this. Maybe this news is shocking, baffling, dismaying,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-t-w/you-are-not-alone-no-really-literally-maybe-you-have-always-known-or/) [A.T.W](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-t-w/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6da/a-t-w-61112_crazy_you-are-not-alone-no-really-literally-ma_2836082.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/self-stigma/#itemlist", "name": "Self-stigma Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“In reviewing his own moral career, the stigmatized individual may single out and retrospectively elaborate experiences which serve for him to account for his coming to the beliefs and practices that he now has regarding his own kind and normals.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Erving Goffman" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erving-goffman/in-reviewing-his-own-moral-career-the-stigmatized-individual-may/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54a/erving-goffman-18642_faith_in-reviewing-his-own-moral-career-the-st_86417.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54a/erving-goffman-18642_faith_in-reviewing-his-own-moral-career-the-st_86417.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54a/erving-goffman-18642_faith_in-reviewing-his-own-moral-career-the-st_86417.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In reviewing his own moral career, the stigmatized individual may single out and retrospectively elaborate…” — Erving Goffman", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“self-stigma is not a person's fault; nor is it a part of the person's illness! 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'This is embarrassing,' I admitted. 'It doesn't have to be.' 'It doesn't have to be, but it is,' I said. The thing is. I never knew when the 'others' were going to come out. I only discovered that one had been out when I lost time or found myself in the midst of some wacky occupation — finger-painting like a five-year-old, cutting my arms, wandering from shops with unwanted, unpaid-for clutter. In her reserved way, Roberta described the kids as an elaborate defence mechanism. As a child, I had blocked out my memories in order not to dwell on anything painful or uncertain. Even as a teenager, I had allowed the bizarre and terrifying to seem normal because the alternative would have upset the fiction of my loving little nuclear family. 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Maybe you have always known (or suspected) this. Maybe this news is shocking, baffling, dismaying, even unbelievable to you. Despite what you might believe or may have been told about yourself, you are not just 'moody'. Nor are you crazy or defective or possessed. You have what is commonly called 'multiple personalities'.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "A.T.W" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-t-w/you-are-not-alone-no-really-literally-maybe-you-have-always-known-or/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6da/a-t-w-61112_crazy_you-are-not-alone-no-really-literally-ma_2836082.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6da/a-t-w-61112_crazy_you-are-not-alone-no-really-literally-ma_2836082.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6da/a-t-w-61112_crazy_you-are-not-alone-no-really-literally-ma_2836082.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“~~You are not alone~~ No, really. Literally. 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