Mental Health Professionals Quotes

Adoption is a lifelong journey. It means different things to me at different times. Sometimes it is just a part of who I am. Other times it is something I am actively going through.

Kelly DiBenedetto

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

Political prisoners describe:- extreme physical and emotional torture- distortion of language, truth, meaning and reality- sham killings- begin repeatedly taken to the point of death or threatened with death- being forced to witness abusive acts on others- being forced to make impossible "choices"- boundaries smashed i.e. by the use of forced nakedness, shame, embarrassment- hoaxes, 'set ups', testing and tricks- being forced to hurt othersRitual abuse survivors often describe much the same things.

I have schizophrenia. I am not schizophrenia. I am not my mental illness. My illness is a part of me.

Jonathan Harnisch