“The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!” — Patrick W. Corrigan Copy Share Image
“Love, like madness, can only fill the models that society makes available.” — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
I was a psycho woman. It felt like something in me that I had no control over. — Katie Price Copy Share Image
I think love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“She had spells of manic loquaciousness, followed by days of silence.” — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
Well, I thought, last night I paid my dues. I faced death. Now I can stay. — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well,… — Pete Earley Copy Share Image
When my mind plays tricks on me I can deal. But when my mind plays tricks on my mind I can not… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of… — Kate Cann Copy Share Image
“When had I stopped being a person with Paranoid Schizophrenia, and become a Paranoid Schizophrenic; defined by my illness?” — Michaela Haze Copy Share Image
Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them. — Lysette Anthony Copy Share Image
“I repeat one of my mantras. 'This is not happening. This is not real. This did not happen to you. That was… — Emily Andrews Copy Share Image
“The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she… — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
Depression makes you seek lonely places, and that is what I started doing during the second semester of my first year in… — Samantha Abeel Copy Share Image
“Spring and Fall” …cannot be said to be about depression - but of course, to someone who is depressed, everything is about… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
I always had a dissociative disorder. But I healed from it over the course of 14 years of big-time therapy. But, you… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
“Nathaniel is not a mentally ill musician, as I have been referring to him, but a musician with mental illness. It's a… — Steve Lopez Copy Share Image
I think we need to update the existing laws to create uniformity across the states so that all people with mental illness… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“Then the weeks rolled by in a sinister psych ward haze filled with white-coated orderlies and rocking whack-job patients torn straight from… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“What sticks with me now is that this man said he needed to get to a hospital. He probably needed to reach… — Susan Nielsen Copy Share Image
“We must understand that those who experience abuse as children, and particularly those who experience incest, almost invariably suffer from a profound… — Cameron West Copy Share Image
“Sadly, psychiatric training still includes far too little on the very serious psychiatric sequelae of childhood trauma, especially CSA [child sexual abuse].… — Joan Coleman Copy Share Image
“Did I imagine the castle, the dungeon, the ritual orgies and violations? Did Lucy, Billy, Samuel, Eliza, Shirley and Kato make it… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“His body had become a companion which seemed always about to leave him: it had its own pains which moved him to… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Having a mental illness is like riding a really fast merry-go-round that never stops. There's no escape. You're stuck. But once in… — Cassia Leo Copy Share Image
“Okay, so when is the mother ship coming to pick us up?” I ask worriedly. “The what?” Reed asks with confusion clouding… — Amy A. Bartol Copy Share Image
My highest achievement: never shutting my heart down. Even in my darkest moments - through sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 14, lies… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“Going mad is the beginning of a process, it's not meant to be the end result.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I finally understood what could drive kids to show up with guns and shoot up their schools.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Except you cannot outrun insanity, anymore than you can outrun your own shadow.” — Alyssa Reyans Copy Share Image
Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
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