People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only… — Pete Earley Copy Share Image
we've got to find a better way to handle the expense of disease. Odd as it may seem, the more efficient we… — Alice Tisdale Hobart Copy Share Image
Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
People need to pay attention to their bodies and go get a checkup. If you do that, you have a chance to… — Tony Dorsett Copy Share Image
Statistics show that 25% of women are on medication for mental illness. That's bloody scary. It means 75% are running around with… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know? — Moby Copy Share Image
“Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. They need at least a doctor who understands… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I want the audience to think about how many people are hiding in the shadows with the condition. I want the film… — Paul Dalio Copy Share Image
Embedded in this outlook is an idea of the body as a machine, so that illness is seen as a breakdown of… — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
I think Hell exists on Earth. It's a psychological state, or it can be a physical state. People who have severe mental… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
How crazy craziness makes everyone, how irrationally afraid. The madness hidden in each of us, called to, identified, aroused like a lust.… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
I want to live fully, very intensely. I would never want to live partially, suffering from illness or injury. If I ever… — Ayrton Senna Copy Share Image
My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But either you… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive. — James Dean Bradfield Copy Share Image
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
It is as imperative to take care of our minds as is our bodies and hence seeking help for mental illness is… — Ananya Birla Copy Share Image
Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a… — Heather Armstrong Copy Share Image
We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious… — Patricia Deegan Copy Share Image
I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of… — Karen Duffy Copy Share Image
Falling ill is not something that happens to us, it is a choice we make as a result of things happening to… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
I believe that mental health services should be based on the premise that the origins of distress are largely social. — Peter Kinderman Copy Share Image
... it is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person. — George Howe Colt Copy Share Image
Illness, especially chronic illness, can be very isolating. Not only does it limit how and when you can socialise, it causes you… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
I just felt as though I would never be happy again, and as if I had fallen into a big black hole. — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living''… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Physically, I'm healthy as a horse, always held up. But in the mental illness department, I got my share. It's just what… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
“I mention a paradox of psychiatry: mental illness is recognized by the patient's distorted thoughts, but treatment is largely indifferent to their… — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
I don't want people to be afraid of health or illness or mortality, because it's a natural part of life. — Suzy Nakamura Copy Share Image
“iGen is on the verge of the most severe mental health crisis for young people in decades. On the surface, though, everything… — Jean M. Twenge Copy Share Image
“Mental illness didn’t really change people. It just made them more of who they were going to be anyway. Mental illness was… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
