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“self-stigma is not a person's fault; nor is it a part of the person's illness!
If the public did not hold negative and stigmatizing attitudes in the first place, these would never have become internalized, causing people the painful and disabling experience of self-stigma.”
― Patrick W. Corrigan, Challenging the Stigma of Mental Illness: Lessons for Therapists and Advocates

“Anyone can have a friend, but the one that would walk in a storm to find you is all you will ever need.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“To think too much is a disease.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground & The Double

“Several themes describe misconceptions about mental illness and corresponding stigmatizing attitudes. Media analyses of film and print have identified three: people with mental illness are homicidal maniacs who need to be feared; they have childlike perceptions of the world that should be marveled; or they are responsible for their illness because they have weak character (29-32)."

World Psychiatry. 2002 Feb; 1(1): 16��20.
PMCID: PMC1489832
Understanding the impact of stigma on people with mental illness
PATRICK W CORRIGAN and AMY C WATSON”
― Patrick W. Corrigan