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“Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.”

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Elyn Saks is a renowned American law professor known for her contributions to the fields of mental health law and legal psychology. Born in 1955, she has achieved significant accomplishments in both academic and public spheres. more

“A comedian is simply a different kind of therapist. A comedian is a psychologist and a psychiatrist rolled into one. Except I can't prescribe medicine. (You still need a doctorate, which is bullshit.) Okay, so I'm not like a psychiatrist. Fine. But I'm still like a psychologist (except I can't diagnose or treat mental illness).”

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Book:The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life

Source: The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life

“This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days,the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness. Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but they are also its warning.”

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Book:Blue Nights

Source: Blue Nights

“Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact, they can be treated.”

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Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables.”

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Book:Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

Source: Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

“Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it.'”

People Thinking Wells Happens Ignorance Comfort Deserve Illness Mental Illness Frightening Oh Well

Author:Pete Earley

“Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets through my glass, [telescope] which he pertinaciously refuses to do. Why are you not here? what shouts of laughter we should have at this glorious folly! and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa laboring before the grand duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky.”

“The whole apparatus of using loyalty-security hearings for working off personal political spite has been firmly established as a part of our "way of life" and I do not see anything happening yet to loosen the hold of this machinery on us.”

Way Has Beens Whole Political Security Happenings Hearing Loyalty Spite Machinery

Author:Edward Condon

“A fundamental requirement, overriding any other for this job, is an understanding of deafness-what it is and how it affects the educational experience.”

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Author:Paul Simon

“The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all disabled people.”

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Author:Michael Dukakis

“For the trustees to turn away from the entirely reasonable request of the students that a hearing-impaired individual be made president of the college is a very unfortunate expression of insensitivity.”

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Author:Barney Frank

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