My thoughts often range between manic to marvelous depends on the day... — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are. — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Mental illness and depression are the reason why I no longer have a father. — Caroline Calloway Copy Share Image
There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Something small and quiet, like a match being struck, lights up the gloom inside of me. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died? — Melinda Gates 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
“I rehearsed Foucault's argument that the presence of madness on our doorstep is good for us, for it reminds us the life… — Michael Greenberg 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
“You have to characterize your coworkers and avoid the ones that degrade the workplace harmony.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“It wasn't that she was sad—sadness had very little to do with it, really, considering that most of the time, she felt… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
“I found it hard to write the bits where the things that were at first surprising or even shocking became normal incrementally… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
“I take no pleasure in, and set no store by, the suggestion that Professor Wessely effectively hijacked the WHO logo to give… — Frederick R.P. Curzon Copy Share Image
It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
One day, I made a remark that I might work with people with mental illness, and somebody in the press heard it… — Rosalynn Carter Copy Share Image
There is nothing worse that you can do to a human being in America today than give them a mental illness kind… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
I think that, generally, when it's a white male shooting, then it's mental illness is the first thing that they utilize after… — Daayiee Abdullah Copy Share Image
At the end of each therapy session, I waited for an evaluation, a clinical judgment, some kind of pronouncement on "my condition."… — Ken Dornstein Copy Share Image
“Dr. Talbon was struck by another very important thing. It all hung together. The stories Cheryl told — even though it was… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“Any time I let it, the weight of living creeps in and starts to drag her down. It would be too easy… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Illness is always an interaction between [mind and body]. It can begin in the mind and affect the body, or it can… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Above all, Alzheimer wanted the medical world to recognize that mental illnesses have an undeniable material component. There was an obvious political… — Margaret M. Lock Copy Share Image
“As Barron began to make sense of what he observed, he came to identify a key consistency among creative people. Namely, these… — Scott Barry Kaufman Copy Share Image
“It's not that there are no challenges to becoming a vegetarian or vegan, but in the media, including authors of popular books… — Sunaura Taylor Copy Share Image
“They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.” — Nathaniel Lee Copy Share Image
The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions. — Anna Castillo Copy Share Image
“I face my trauma because I believe in breaking cycles, not repeating them.” — The Thoughtful Beast Copy Share Image