I love therapy. I talk about it a lot because I feel like, especially among black people, it's stigmatized. — Nicole Byer Copy Share Image
Scientology is probably the most stigmatized religion in America already. — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“We live in a world where touch is both desperately needed and heavily stigmatized.” — Ken Breniman 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
When America became stigmatized in the '60s as racist, sexist and militaristic, it wanted moral authority above all else. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
“When you have a defect, some people try not to see it only as a defect, but as your entire identity.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It is horrible to say, but I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
“Individuals are often stigmatized and told their illness isn’t real… People with [ME] CFS face an incredible burden just getting doctors to… — Barry E. Hurwitz Copy Share Image
Mental illness is by far the most misunderstood, and stigmatized, of all afflictions. Statistically, one in three families in the U.S. deals… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today. — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
Most physicians regard abortion as a stigmatized operation done by people who are otherwise incompetent and can't do anything else. — Warren Hern Copy Share Image
I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued, or… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness… — Elton John Copy Share Image
The term stigma and its synonyms conceal a double perspective: does the stigmatized individual assume his differentness is known about already or… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
“The consequence of such mingling is that an individual who enters the communications system pursuing one interest soon becomes aware of stigmatized… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“Disclosures of childhood sexual abuse have frequently been discredited through the diagnosis of hysteria. In this view, women/female children were seen either… — Judith L. Alpert Copy Share Image
“I will be living with chronic pain for the rest of my life. I don’t have the mobility, energy or life options… — Sonya Huber Copy Share Image
“When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel allowed to… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
“Here I want to stress that perception of losing one’s mind is based on culturally derived and socially ingrained stereotypes as to… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
“There’s a saying that goes something like: ‘We are all one drink or pill away from addiction,’ and I know this is… — S. E. Smith Copy Share Image
“The stigma of chronic pain is one of the most difficult aspects of living with chronic pain. If you have chronic pain,… — Murray J. McAlister Copy Share Image
The stigmatized individual is asked to act so as to imply neither that his burden is heavy nor that bearing it has… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
“Everybody stuttered, but the fellow who stuttered too much was called a stutterer.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents. — Alan Chambers Copy Share Image
I'm a mental-health advocate big time, so I think it's great when depression is a thing that's discussed out in the open,… — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
Mental health, although being talked about more and more nowadays, is still extremely misunderstood and stigmatized, especially in Pakistan, where people think… — Sanam Saeed Copy Share Image
“Mental illness" is among the most stigmatized of categories.' People are ashamed of being mentally ill. They fear disclosing their condition to… — Elyn R. Saks Copy Share Image
I've never felt stigmatized in my profession, nor have I allowed myself to. I don't feel either male or female, I feel… — Miranda Richardson Copy Share Image
“In the debate over opioid addiction, there’s one group we aren’t hearing from: chronic pain patients, many of whom need to use… — S. E. Smith Copy Share Image
“the media coverage of the ‘opiate epidemic’ as driven by pill pushing-doctors and by pain patients worries me a lot, and I… — Anita Gupta Copy Share Image
“An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized, as the offspring of a temper fond of despotic… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is so much to be celebrated about mental illness. I do believe that there is something to be said about the… — Mauro Ranallo 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
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