#stigma

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma. ↗

— Philip Guedalla

#beat #dogma #old #saying #serve

I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be. ↗

— Jennifer Ellison

#because #depression #had #i #much

Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased? ↗

— Mickey Kaus

#dole #erased #going #really #society

You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else. ↗

— Alison Krauss

#because #being #bluegrass #deep #else

Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#big #bloke #enough #out #pointing

For me, there is a stigma attached to playing beautiful parts. They are often empty characters whom the action happens around. I'm more drawn to characters with a complex internal life, who have a burning frustration underneath that keeps them going. ↗

— Ruth Wilson

#around #attached #beautiful #burning #characters

Whether the medium is ready for consumers is better judged by those consumers. I sometimes read online - but not often. The stigma is attached to pay scales. Much online publication is no pay or small pay. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#better #consumers #i #judged #medium

Of course, I should have known the kids would pop out in the atmosphere of Roberta's office. That's what they do when Alice is under stress. They see a gap in the space-time continuum and slip through like beams of light through a prism changing form and direction. We had got into the habit in recent weeks of starting our sessions with that marble and stick game called Ker-Plunk, which Billy liked. There were times when I caught myself entering the office with a teddy that Samuel had taken from the toy cupboard outside. Roberta told me that on a couple of occasions I had shot her with the plastic gun and once, as Samuel, I had climbed down from the high-tech chairs, rolled into a ball in the corner and just cried. 'This is embarrassing,' I admitted. 'It doesn't have to be.' 'It doesn't have to be, but it is,' I said. The thing is. I never knew when the 'others' were going to come out. I only discovered that one had been out when I lost time or found myself in the midst of some wacky occupation — finger-painting like a five-year-old, cutting my arms, wandering from shops with unwanted, unpaid-for clutter. In her reserved way, Roberta described the kids as an elaborate defence mechanism. As a child, I had blocked out my memories in order not to dwell on anything painful or uncertain. Even as a teenager, I had allowed the bizarre and terrifying to seem normal because the alternative would have upset the fiction of my loving little nuclear family. I made a mental note to look up defence mechanisms, something we had touched on in psychology. ↗

— Alice Jamieson

#alters #dissociation #dissociative #dissociative-identity-disorder #embarrassment

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#first #i #out #real #starting

I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#attached #body #i #little #my own