My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.
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.
in my experience, the words “now just calm down” almost inevitably have the opposite effect on the person you are speaking to.
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.
Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.
