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  • #1
    Iyanla Vanzant
    “Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.”
    ― Iyanla Vanzant
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    Iyanla Vanzant
    “When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.”
    ― Iyanla Vanzant
    tags: inspirational-quotes, iyanla-vanzant, spinach-soup-for-the-walls
    135 likes

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  • #3
    Holly Bourne
    “Because now people use the phrase OCD to describe minor personality quirks. "Oooh, I like my pens in a line, I'm so OCD."
    NO YOU'RE FUCKING NOT.
    "Oh my God, I was so nervous about that presentation, I literally had a panic attack."
    NO YOU FUCKING DIDN'T.
    "I'm so hormonal today. I just feel totally bipolar."
    SHUT UP, YOU IGNORANT BUMFACE.”
    ― Holly Bourne, Am I Normal Yet?
    tags: mental-health
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    Sophie Kinsella
    “The trouble is, depression doesn't come with handy symptoms like spots and a temperature, so you don't realize it at first. You keep saying 'I'm fine' to people when you're not fine. You think you should be fine. You keep saying to yourself: 'Why aren't I fine?”
    ― Sophie Kinsella, Finding Audrey
    tags: anxiety, depression, mental-health
    145 likes

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  • #5
    Matt Haig
    “There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.”
    ― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive
    tags: life, mental-health, mental-illness
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  • #6
    Jillian Michaels
    “Part of abandoning the all-or-nothing mentality is allowing yourself room for setbacks. We are bound to have lapses on the road to health and wellness, but it is critical that we learn how to handle small failures positively so that we can minimize their long-term destructive effects. One setback is one setback—it is not the end of the world, nor is it the end of your journey toward a better you.”
    ― Jillian Michaels
    tags: personal-development, self-help, self-improvement
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  • #7
    C. JoyBell C.
    “Everyone screams for help in their own different way. Just because you don't understand it, does not mean they're not screaming. Let's not have opinions or judgments on how people survive their lives.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: judgmentality, life-and-living, life-quotes, mental-health, survive-life, surviver, words-to-live-by
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  • #8
    L.M. Browning
    “We can’t deny our journey. We can’t pretend we’re fine when we’re not. All we can do is own it—own our suffering.”
    ― L.M. Browning, To Lose the Madness: Field Notes on Trauma, Loss and Radical Authenticity
    tags: depression, healing, mental-health, miscarriage, mountains, nature, new-mexico, ptsd, suicide, trauma
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  • #9
    L.M. Browning
    “Now I know, you can’t change what’s happened to you or hide it, or spin it, or get over it. All you can do is hold it confidently knowing that the mistakes are yours but so too is the wisdom earned along the punishing passage. Suffering is the catalyst for transformation. The wounds don’t define us; how we went about surviving does. Oddity, in this sickened society of medicated despair, is a blessed state.”
    ― L.M. Browning, To Lose the Madness: Field Notes on Trauma, Loss and Radical Authenticity
    tags: depression, healing, mental-health, miscarriage, mountains, nature, oddity, ptsd, suicide, transformation
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  • #10
    “I soon realised that just because it appeared that way didn't mean it was true. As my thinking changed, my experience changed.”
    ― Rani Bora, How to Turn Stress on Its Head
    tags: inpirational, mental-health, psychology-of-self, stress-management, stress-relief
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  • #11
    Jamie Tworkowski
    “We’re all in this together. It’s okay to be honest. It’s okay to ask for help. It’s okay to say you’re stuck, or that you’re haunted or that you can’t begin to let go. We can all relate to those things. Screw the stigma that says otherwise. Break the silence and break the cycle, for you are more than just your pain. You are not alone. And people need other people.”
    ― Jamie Tworkowski, If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For
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  • #12
    “Sometimes the people around you won't understand your journey. They don't need to, it's not for them.”
    ― Joubert Botha
    tags: healig, healing-trauma, jourrney, mental-disorders, mental-health-stigma, mental-illness, misunderstanding, recovery
    64 likes

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  • #13
    “You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.”
    ― Julian Seifter
    tags: assumptions, bias, diagnosis, identity, illness, mental-disorder, mental-health-stigma, mental-illness, stereotype, stigma
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  • #14
    Ruby Wax
    “Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?”
    ― Ruby Wax
    tags: crazy, depression, discrimination, lack-of-compassion, mental-health-stigma, mental-illness, prejudice, stigma
    28 likes

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  • #15
    M.B. Dallocchio
    “Stigma's power lies in silence. The silence that persists when discussion and action should be taking place. The silence one imposes on another for speaking up on a taboo subject, branding them with a label until they are rendered mute or preferably unheard.”
    ― M.B. Dallocchio
    tags: controversy, crisis, isolation, mental-health, silence, stigma, taboo
    18 likes

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  • #16
    Elyn R. Saks
    “Mental illness" is among the most stigmatized of categories.' People are ashamed of being mentally ill. They fear disclosing their condition to their friends and confidants-and certainly to their employers.”
    ― Elyn R. Saks, Refusing Care: Forced Treatment and the Rights of the Mentally Ill
    tags: bias, diagnosis, disclosure, discrimination, employee-relations, employment-contract, employment-law, employment-rights, fear, mental-disorder, mental-health-stigma, mental-illness, psychology, stigma
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  • #17
    “When we criticize the suicidal for being selfish, we are actually criticizing them for not enduring their pain with grace and good manners. These are nice qualities; we may be correct to reproach average citizens for not having them. But to expect everyone in pain to have them is unrealistic. Bearing pain quietly is what moralists call a supererogatory act--an act that is above the call of duty. Expecting everyone to who is suicidal to behave in a way that is morally above average is simply abusive.”
    ― David L. Conroy, Out of the Nightmare: Recovery from Depression and Suicidal Pain
    tags: criticism, depression, selfish, stigma, suicide
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  • #18
    “I'm not the kind of person who likes to shout out my personal issues from the rooftops, but with my bipolar becoming public, I hope fellow sufferers will know it's completely controllable. I hope I can help remove any stigma attached to it, and that those who don't have it under control will seek help with all that is available to treat it.”
    ― Catherine Zeta-Jones
    tags: bipolar, bipolar-disorder, bipolar-quotes, manic-depression, mental-disorder, mental-health-stigma, mental-illness, prejudice, stereotypes
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  • #19
    Elyn R. Saks
    “No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness.”
    ― Elyn R. Saks
    tags: bias, diagnosis, humanity, mental-disorder, mental-health-stigma, mental-illness, prejudice, psychiatric-abuse, stereotype, stigma
    35 likes

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  • #20
    Jennifer Niven
    “It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”
    ― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
    tags: all-the-bright-places, depression, experience, hurting, mental-illness, ya
    1613 likes



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