“Severe mental illness has been likened to drug addiction, prostitution, and criminality (37,38). Unlike physical disabilities, persons with mental illness are perceived by the public to be in control of their disabilities and responsible for causing them (34,36). Furthermore, research respondents are less likely to pity persons with mental illness, instead reacting to psychiatric disability with anger and believing that help is not deserved” PrejudiceMental HealthMental IllnessDisabilityStigmaMental Health StigmaDisability QuotesBlamingSevere Mental Illness Book:On The Stigma Of Mental Illness: Practical Strategies for Research and Social Change Source: On The Stigma Of Mental Illness: Practical Strategies for Research and Social Change
“Many of the haters call me mental, which, by the way, is quite true, both metaphorically and clinically. It's true clinically because I am a person on the spectrum with OCD, and metaphorically, because I refuse to accept the sanity of unaccountability as the right way of civilized life. I am not going to glorify the issues of mental illness by saying that it's a super power or that it makes a person special. On the contrary, it makes things extremely difficult for a person. But guess what! Indifference is far more dangerous than any mental illness. Because mental illness can be managed with treatment, but there is no treatment for indifference, there is no treatment for coldness, there is no treatment for apathy. So, let everyone hear it, and hear it well - in a world where indifference is deemed as sanity what's needed is a whole lot of mentalness, a whole lot of insanity, insanity for justice, insanity for equality, insanity for establishing the fundamental rights of life and living for each and every human being, no matter who they are, what they are, or where they are.” Social JusticeDiscriminationIndifferenceHuman Rights ActivistHumanitarian ScientistMental Health StigmaAutism AwarenessAutistic AuthorObsessive Compulsive DisorderClinical Insanity Book:Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather