“My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.” — Emery Lord Copy Share Image
Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Most sane people think that no insane person can reason logically. But this is not so. — Clifford Whittingham Beers Copy Share Image
I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness. — Gail Porter Copy Share Image
“I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow… — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that when people see that a successful person who has suffered and is a survivor of mental illness, and is… — Ananya Birla Copy Share Image
We have to get the word out that mental illnesses can be diagnosed and treated, and almost everyone suffering from mental illness… — Rosalynn Carter Copy Share Image
The most miraculous moments of my life were not when my daughter and son were born, but when the second or third… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Life wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t supposed to be. Eternal beauty could not exist if it were not for the face of… — Allie Burke Copy Share Image
“Am I a mindless fool? My life is a fragment, a disconnected dream that has no continuity. I am so tired of… — Ross David Burke Copy Share Image
When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
It all made sense - terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had… — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
I was the most important person of the world, and people like the Pope would be just like enemies, who would try… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image
She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“DID is about survival! As more people begin to appreciate this concept, individuals with DID will start to feel less as though… — Deborah Bray Haddock Copy Share Image
“Parents, families, and caregivers are a “minority” group in the mental health system. This population is hungry for knowledge, direction, and peace… — Tamara Hill, MS Copy Share Image
“There were other strange signals and signs. Another day, suddenly felt an almost overwhelming urge to travel to Balitmore. I wanted to… — Cheryl Hersha 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
“You aren’t falling apart. You’re well beyond that. You’re just rattling along now. Elven dolls doing what little you can to gather… — Darrell Drake Copy Share Image
I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
When I was hospitalized in 1992 with severe clinical depression I thought I was the only one. I didn't know of one… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
“Eventually my mother suffered a complete breakdown, and the court orders were finally signed. They took her to the State Mental Hospital… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We have a serious problem with incarceration in this country. It's destroying families, it's destroying communities and we're the most incarcerated country… — John Legend Copy Share Image
“While the first few explosions might be written off as coincidence, or even bad luck, somewhere around the tenth destroyed vehicle a… — J.A. Konrath Copy Share Image
One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people. — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
You've got everything except one thing: madness! A man needs a little madness, or else... — Anthony Quinn Copy Share Image
“Mental health is not the absence of struggle, but the presence of strength in managing it.” — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
“Facebook is to mental health, what fossil fuel is to climate health.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The truth will set you free, they say, but believe me, nothing will set you free.” — Ava Farmehri Copy Share Image
But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is… — Philip O Ceallaigh Copy Share Image
