You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
There was a really positive environment in my household around a conversation about mental illness, and that helped me never really feel… — Noah Kahan Copy Share Image
Mental illness and eating disorders can affect anyone - every age, race, and gender - and I'm so proud to be a… — Matthew Koma Copy Share Image
I've invaded the walls of the asylums with my ink pen. The way they look at mental illness won't be the same… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
A lot of people are ashamed to talk about mental illness. To me, it's power to give people that. — Ahmad Balshe Copy Share Image
We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility… — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice. — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Popular culture has twisted it, but popular culture has twisted madness in general. They make it funny, they romanticize it, or they… — wildbow Copy Share Image
“There is such a thing as crazy-mother bonding. . . . It happens when one realizes the other also has had a… — Minrose Gwin Copy Share Image
“The Catholic Church created strict guidelines for the rite of exorcism back in 1614—guidelines that have remained largely unchanged in 400 years.… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
I think it backfired. It wasn't what I expected, it was difficult. I didn't expect them to throw somany mind games into… — Sophie Anderton Copy Share Image
What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
“Emily woke to shadows and their voices. They looked different today, because the entire world hurt. The numbness had worn off sometime… — Allie Burke Copy Share Image
“A sensual woman is the best escape and emotional cure for a man who's soul is distressed. If women could learn that,… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
“Thinking - thinking real hard. My grandmother knew when I was down. She knew what to do She would encourage me to… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
“ Tempting as it may be to draw one conclusion or another from my story and universalize it to apply to another's experience,… — Rachel Reiland Copy Share Image
“The individual who "adjusts" has managed to relegate the two contradictory injunctions of the double bind - to imitate and not to… — René Girard Copy Share Image
“Cousin Mary hoped her journey through periods of dark and light was like that of a Swiss train toiling up the mountainside,… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“The point is, the brain talks to itself, and by talking to itself changes its perceptions. To make a new version of… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“To begin consciously searching into the world of mental illness is to see it snap into focus before your eyes. It is… — Ron Powers Copy Share Image
“Medical research has revealed that in about one-tenth of the population, the liver processes alcohol differently, releasing a chemical messenger that creates… — Kaylie Jones Copy Share Image
“In response to threat and injury, animals, including humans, execute biologically based, non-conscious action patterns that prepare them to meet the threat… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“There are such things as delusions, but not every unlikely vision that the mentally ill have is imaginary.” — Shepherd Hoodwin Copy Share Image
“The shrinks call it Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. I call it hell. The demons are waiting in each corner, ready to drag me… — James Coyne Copy Share Image
“Your mother is going to be fine," the nurse says. I breathe more easily but the word settles into my stomach. Fine.… — Sara Polsky Copy Share Image
The difficult thing with mental illness is that there's no one to blame. You can't blame a person who's mentally ill, because… — Donna Lynne Champlin Copy Share Image
It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
Mental illness and creativity are - it's a thin line in between the two. I tend to believe that. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that. — Peter Shilton Copy Share Image
I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“People with developmental disabilities and mental illness are only handicapped by how much we underestimate them.” — Donna Kirk Copy Share Image
If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Pumped Up Kicks' when I began to read about the growing trend in teenage mental illness. I wanted to understand… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
“After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery,… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
