My father, Eric, was bipolar and as he got older, his illness affected the family more and more. My mother was magnificent… — Rick Stein Copy Share Image
Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is… — Rachel Corrie Copy Share Image
A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood… — Lee Haney Copy Share Image
Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The difficult thing with mental illness is that there's no one to blame. You can't blame a person who's mentally ill, because… — Donna Lynne Champlin Copy Share Image
It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
Mental illness and creativity are - it's a thin line in between the two. I tend to believe that. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness. — Mary Garden Copy Share Image
My mother had never had a day's illness in her life and never thought to have checks. Then, at 78, she discovered… — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
A sacred illness is one that educates us and alters us from the inside out, provides experiences and therefore knowledge that we… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
We need to start identifying the triggers that aggravate mental health issues in our society - bullying, social media negativity and anxiety,… — Sanam Saeed Copy Share Image
Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“People try to treat their illnesses without first trying to understand the cause of them. Behind every effect there is a cause.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“She is no longer a solitary being. She is a million different parts, each reborn, granted the miracle she prayed for in… — Victoria Kahler Copy Share Image
The provision of health care facilities must be accepted as a social responsibility. It is not that an individual who has the… — Toh Chin Chye Copy Share Image
“We are often given pills or fluids to help remedy illness, yet little has been taught to us about the power of… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“I became a mother before becoming sick, but i never expected sickness to take away my independent mothering, so i plant trees… — Nikki rowe Copy Share Image
It is my greatest joy to share with students this knowledge that I have acquired in the past 50 years of practice… — Dharma Mittra Copy Share Image
Until relatively recently, mass political movements were still about basic rights of food, shelter, education and self sufficiency. The reasons fewer people… — John Diamond Copy Share Image
The less control people had over their work, the higher their blood pressure during work hours. Moreover, blood pressure at home was… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own… — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
I think people forget that when people lose Medicaid coverage, they still show up at the hospital when they have a chronic… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
the casualties among us include not just those who are dying, or bleeding, or recovering from injury, but also the caretakers around… — Natalie Kusz Copy Share Image
As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating. — Vanessa Bayer Copy Share Image
Even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around under your hood with a giant foam "We're #1" finger. — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
If we are extremists, then we are not ashamed of it, for the conditions that our people suffer are extreme, and extreme… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that - rather than just think… — Robin Gibb Copy Share Image
The famous herbalist Samuel Thompson used two herbs mainly, cayenne & lobelia. And with those two herbs, it is estimated he helped… — Richard M. Schulze Copy Share Image
The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I understood that menstruation - the indication that you're a real woman - stopped if you grew weak from illness — Aya Kito Copy Share Image
You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that. — Peter Shilton Copy Share Image
I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our… — Mira Bartok Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Pumped Up Kicks' when I began to read about the growing trend in teenage mental illness. I wanted to understand… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that… — Frederick Salomon Perls Copy Share Image
I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing. — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
