It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just another form of love. — Charles Manson 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
“My reflection followed me mercilessly in mirrors, car doors, shop windows. I lived in a world of circus mirrors, the grotesque distortion… — Bethany Pierce 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
“In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.” — Kevin Alan Lee 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
“Embrace risk-taking: Challenge yourself to take calculated risks, whether it’s trying a new approach at work or taking on a new hobby… — J. Edwards Holt 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
“But what if I did tell people exactly what was going on? What if I valued my own peace of mind more… — Melissa Broder Copy Share Image
Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon,… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My wife, like many women, actually LIKES wrapping things. If she gives you a gift that requires batteries, she wraps the batteries… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“A lot of people believe that mental illness does not affect our children within the school system. But the truth is that… — Tamara Hill, MS Copy Share Image
I think the stigma surrounding mental illness and also the stigma surrounding self-esteem issues or insecurities or just even feeling different is… — Brittany Snow Copy Share Image
No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“When you speak of my insanity, please let it be with the beauty only art knows. Let it bleed till it becomes… — P.H. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The drone told him one in ten of the people he passed on the street would be treated for mental illness at… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view,… — Clare Boylan Copy Share Image
“The programme into which Cheryl was inducted combined all the different ways the intelligence community had learned could cause intense psychological change… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“The distinction between diseases of "brain" and "mind," between "neurological" problems and "psychological" or "psychiatric" ones, is an unfortunate cultural inheritance that… — António R. Damásio Copy Share Image
“One of the paradoxical and transformative aspects of implicit traumatic memory is that once it is accessed in a resourced way (through… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“It is necessary to make this point in answer to the 'iatrogenic' theory that the unveiling of repressed memories in MPD sufferers,… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“In the absence of any therapy, the mentally ill of the 20th century were chained, shackled, straitjacketed, kept nude, electrocuted, half-frozen, parboiled,… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“The disorders that psychology associates with the dissonance between what parents say to children and what children know to be reality -… — Hugh Brody Copy Share Image
It's a bit like walking down a long, dark corridor never knowing when the light will go on. — Neil Lennon Copy Share Image
Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness. — Madchen Amick Copy Share Image
“Some people suffer in silence, pain in the hearts but smiles on their faces.” — Isha Barlas Copy Share Image
“A child's death isn't always necessary for a mother to grieve.” — Bebe Moore Campbell Copy Share Image
“Thus the incidence of mental illness correlates closely to income in the US and the UK,” — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you. — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image