Stigma is Killing Us
What if as a society we replaced all the gut-wrenching and isolating words like stigma and its synonyms with their antonyms?
Topic: stigma
What if as a society we replaced all the gut-wrenching and isolating words like stigma and its synonyms with their antonyms?
I don’t need you to be strong. I just need you to be here.
“Some people had childhoods much worse than yours. Yours wasn’t really traumatic.”
To have someone just let you exist and hold out a hand when you’re a little too close to the edge.
The scars don't make me feel ashamed. I'm alive, I'm radically joyful.
I don’t believe that having a diagnosis of my own makes me a less effective clinician.
The intersection of mental health and homelessness.
We deserve to seek help without stigma from those tasked with caring for us.
The things that helped me survive.
These words were spoken in love and broadcast in an attempt to project shame.
I couldn’t name mental health. I couldn’t call my depression by its title when it came creeping up to scare me. Instead, I let it overstay its welcome.
"While I can label the thought all I want with words like negative, dark, disappointing—when I boil it down to the basics, it’s just a thought."
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