Mental Illness Discrimination Quotes

For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away.

The sad truth is that millions of people with mental illness suffer stigma and prejudice, especially at work.

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

We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

My mother struggled immensely with mental illness, and so did I. She grew up bipolar, but it was never diagnosed nor recognized. It was shrugged off like a 'symptom' of being female - of her being weak. I also experienced this growing up: I felt that the great pain I experienced was a dramatisation.

In India, there is a huge stigma attached to one having a mental illness; this not only makes it worse for the sufferer but also for their caregivers.

My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.