“. . . PTSD, and other illness terms as well, have become a way of claiming a right to legitimate pain and misfortune. It is as if, without the illness label, their anguish wouldn't be valid, and they wouldn't be granted a passport to what Susan Sontag once called citizenship in 'the kingdom of the sick.' [However, it is] only some realms in that kingdom [that] offer a refuge from the stigma of mental illnesses: the diseases that come to us from the outside, apparently through no fault of our own, like PTSD and the enigmatic Gulf War syndrome (GWS).” PainMental HealthIllnessTraumaLabelsSicknessPtsdStigma Book:Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness Source: Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
“. . .the reality is that sex has been fixed for only two centuries of the long history of Western civilization, and a number of non-Western societies have, for generations, recognized three, four, or five sexes, and with little or no stigma.” SexCivilizationStigmaWestern Civilization Book:Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness Source: Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness