Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Writing about my illness put me into places. It was very triggering. I had to completely remove myself and practice self-care. I… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Mental health awareness means ending the stigma of mental illness by sharing the complexities of our stories and fighting to make care… — Michelle Wu Copy Share Image
We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth… — David Agus Copy Share Image
It's in poor taste to question anyone's illness diagnosed through specific testing by their doctor. — Camille Grammer Copy Share Image
“...I wondered at times whether I would wake up and this would be just a bad dream, a nightmare that I could… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
If you're fifty, exercise your mind and body regularly, eat well, and have a general zest for life, you're likely younger -… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Visiting the sick is supposed to exhibit such great virtue that there are some people determined to do it whether the sick… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Superstition is just another form of thought like any other, a form that accentuates and regulates the association of ideas, it's an… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
What happens when you have an illness where you're never going to be healthy? Does that mean I'm never going to have… — Claire Wineland Copy Share Image
“That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
All suffering is caused by the illusion of separateness, which generates fear and self-hatred, which eventually causes illness. You are the master… — Barbara Brennan Copy Share Image
It's really kind of overwhelming and staggering to me how many people I know that have mental illness and there's not one… — Maya Forbes Copy Share Image
Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can't help himself. You're talking to him and all of a sudden, you… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
“Maybe all illness results from a failure of communication between mind and body. It is certainly true of such quick disease as… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I believe the biggest stigma right now, with mental health, is that a lot of men are not talking about it. — Mauro Ranallo Copy Share Image
“God didn’t design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Mental illness is so hard to define. It's not like an umbrella diagnosis that everyone can fall under, and even one person… — Stephanie Labbe Copy Share Image
And people get so weird about mental illness, you follow the rules! You don't up a heart patient on a roller coaster,… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
“The girl was a gypsy before an illness took control of her legs, now she watches in awe the world pass by… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
“I don't think you can be a physician and not see yourself reflected in your patient's illness. How would I deal with… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
It's so important that we figure out a way of moving beyond the stigma that still exists around treatment for mental health. — Tina Smith Copy Share Image
If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness. — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
“Am I cured?” “No. You’re someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism,… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time. — Harry Allen Overstreet Copy Share Image
“The panic was there, staring me down in the face, all the time, like I had a hoodie on backwards and I… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
Millions of working, uninsured Americans go to bed every night worrying what will happen to them and their families if a major… — Tim Ryan Copy Share Image
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The actor playing Lee got really irritated. He tried to escape by turning, running, or twisting and talking or yelling above the… — Pete Earley Copy Share Image
Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image