The most miraculous moments of my life were not when my daughter and son were born, but when the second or third… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“Sickness is a benign rehearsal for death. With luck, some other understudy will go on in your stead before your final bow… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
It always sucks to have to cancel a show because of illness, but unfortunately it sometimes happens. — Michael Anthony Copy Share Image
I know a lot about systemic lupus erythematosus because I have it, too. I was diagnosed through the NHS when I first… — Katherine Ryan Copy Share Image
Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health. — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“His legs withered. His stomach stretched taut as a drum. His skin erupted in watery pustules: whichever way he turned was agony.… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
This is a word that is not a scientific term. This is a rhetorical tool of psychological manipulation... Because everyone knows if… — Scott Lively Copy Share Image
Life is a series of baby steps along the way and if you add up these tiny little steps you take toward… — Hoda Kotb Copy Share Image
“I owe it all to words and art, the peace that came with a flicker of a pen silenced the suffering; eased… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
I've always been aware of my health - when you are having to go on stage and perform, you need to be… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
When you live with a potentially life-threatening condition you get used to the thought of dying. You accept it, you push on.… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
The people of this country desperately need to engage in an open and honest debate about mental health. — David Satcher Copy Share Image
I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“She is not well, she has had a nervous complaint on her for several weeks.' 'I am sorry for that. At her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
My character in 'Running With Scissors' is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
We have to get the word out that mental illnesses can be diagnosed and treated, and almost everyone suffering from mental illness… — Rosalynn Carter Copy Share Image
I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Any illness is a direct message to you that tells you how you have not been loving who you are, cherishing yourself… — Barbara Brennan Copy Share Image
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not enough to belong to a religion. You also have to put it into practice. Religion is like medicine. You… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Computers and mobile devices are becoming known for their inherent insecurities and the ability to damage the long term health of the… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Eating a natural diet with loads of fresh fruit and veg and little processed food helps me manage the symptoms of my… — Ella Woodward Copy Share Image
But big people’s illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
It's normal to shy away from illness and death. It's natural to gravitate toward laughter and life. — Ellyn Bache Copy Share Image
“The amount of sympathy you get from having an illness is paid out like a Ponzi scheme and psychiatric disorders are all… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“Your attitude will either make or break you, we cannot change fate and the tragedies that enter our lives but we can… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
I was depressed at a very young age - mental illness runs in my family, especially on the female side. — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
It's vital that someone with a mental health issue is given the chance to open up to someone and discuss how they're… — Penny Mordaunt Copy Share Image
