My therapist told me that I over-analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this because of his unhappy relationship with his mother.

I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

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.

As special as it is to listen to your friends argue over whether or not you have a mental illness,I'm starting to get the urge to go back to class.

The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!

Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know.