“All I ask of all my friends is that they understand this is truly a devastating neurological illness and not just about… — Tracey Browett Copy Share Image
Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
physical disability looms pretty large in one's life. But it doesn't devour one wholly. I'm not, for instance, Ms. MS, a walking,… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems?… — Tom Sturridge Copy Share Image
Sickness disgusts us with death, and we wish to get well, which is a way of wishing to live. But weakness and… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
We are a conspiracy of hope and we are pressing back against the strong tide of oppression which for centuries has been… — Patricia Deegan Copy Share Image
The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not tacked on… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works.… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Mental health is something that needs to be spoken about openly for everybody, especially in men. It's something that people perceive as… — George Russell Copy Share Image
Dearest Lord, may I see you today and every day in the person of your sick, and, whilst nursing them, minister unto… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“Mental illness" is among the most stigmatized of categories.' People are ashamed of being mentally ill. They fear disclosing their condition to… — Elyn R. Saks Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
I enjoy the fact that, as a gay man, there's relatively little pressure on me to act like a grown-up, but also… — Vestal McIntyre Copy Share Image
I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not… — David Thewlis Copy Share Image
Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A very good drink they call Chaube that is almost as black as ink and very good in illness, especially of the… — Leonhard Rauwolf Copy Share Image
Illness itself can make you angry, enraged, furious, and it made me angry, enraged, and furious. I don't think it brought me… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
A sick person is Allah's guest for as long as he is ill. Every day he is sick, God gives him countless… — Kristiane Backer Copy Share Image
My childhood was surrounded by trouble, illness, and my dad's alcoholism, but as I said, we just didn't have the time to… — James Cagney Copy Share Image
Actually, I don't think most people join white supremacist groups because of the ideology or dogma. They gravitate to these groups because… — Christian Picciolini Copy Share Image
I feel like 45. I don't look bad for someone my age, with my history of illnesses and operations and all those… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
We have a dysfunctional dream of the planet, and humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear. The symptoms of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would not encourage you to go through the sweat, blood, and tears of the recovery process only to reach some kind… — Jenni Schaefer Copy Share Image
Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will;… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Everything but truth becomes loathed in a sick-room ... Let the nurse avow that the medicine is nauseous. Let the physician declare… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
'Ten Years Later' is about the journey six extraordinary people take with time. Each has experienced a game-changing event - perhaps a… — Hoda Kotb Copy Share Image
A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It… — Laozi Copy Share Image
He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“There will be the IV poles, the divorce papers, the sound of dirt hitting a casket. We will have moments where we… — Angie Smith Copy Share Image
Seeing movies about mental illness, a lot of falseness has leapt out at me over the years... So I just focused on… — Maya Forbes Copy Share Image
I have built up so much stuff , I am afraid I would cry forever, or have to go to sleep for… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Friends and family were convinced I was functioning just fine because I was efficient, productive and successful - who wouldn't be working… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
“I cannot defeat cancer. Nobody defeats cancer. There is no winning or losing. There is no surviving or not surviving. There are… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
