You can only explain America's gun violence problem through guns, because mental illness doesn't automatically lead to violence, and it doesn't lead… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast. I'm not talking about onset or duration. I mean the quality of the… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
I remember you said you'd always be there for me. But where were you when I needed you the most? — Christopher Gipp Copy Share Image
My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well. — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
We've all got people who have experienced mental illness, and my mum was a community nurse for a while. — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share Image
A lot of people I've known for years won't chat with me because they think I'm crazy seriously it's just because I… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
I hear they feed you in Sing Sing,” Evie muttered. “Three squares a day.” “Evangeline,” Will said with a sigh. “Charity begins… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“Do you still have any delusions? For instance, does the furniture threaten you like you said the bureau did at home?" "No,… — Barbara Field Benziger Copy Share Image
If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Only those who have been on the receiving end of poverty, unemployment, homelessess, mental illness, domestic violence, racism, sexism or ageism can… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
“Psychiatric disorders are the only kind of sickness that we as a society regularly respond to not with sympathy but with handcuffs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“They both carried a million cracks beneath the skin. Even under the stark light of the fluorescents, it was hard to see… — Pam Godwin Copy Share Image
I wrote a 'Lenny Letter' on a whim, and it felt indulgent, but people came up to me with tears in their… — Whitney Cummings Copy Share Image
If people can talk about having breast cancer, why can't people who have mental illness talk about mental illness? Until we're able… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“The biology of potential illness arises early in life. The brain’s stress-response mechanisms are programmed by experiences beginning in infancy, and so… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
“And Kate thought about a time, long ago, when she had witnessed an ongoing romance between two mental patients. As a teenager… — Sabrynne McLain Copy Share Image
“At the end of his life, which had included financial ruin in the Great Depression, his wife's barbiturate addiction and death by… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“What I failed to see was that, by ending my life, I would cause interminable pain to my family and friends. I… — Kevin Hines Copy Share Image
“The Bad-Moon Girls appear on days when Dad doesn't know what he is thinking, or even if he is thinking. Those days… — Joanna Campbell Copy Share Image
“The people we love get under our skin and crawl through our veins and fine their way into our heart. They choke… — Katrina Leno Copy Share Image
“As a child I had been taken to see Dr Bradshaw on countless occasions; it was in his surgery that Billy had… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
I always feel bad laughing at people who act crazy. But sometimes the things they do are so damned funny. I wonder… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
People don't realize how many of the homeless are single moms, and a lot of veterans, and people with mental illness. — Joe Maddon Copy Share Image
So much progress has been made with topics like mental illness and drug abuse and sexual identity. — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
Lets try to come to a place of compassion about mental illness, in all its forms, and help each other find healing. — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
I'm an empress. I wear an apron. My typewriter writes. It didn't break the way it warned. Even crazy, I'm as nice… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Oh damn there playing bag pipes on TV here comes the tears again. Certain music, songs and sounds rip me apart PTSD… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
“Always remember, if you have been diagnosed with PTSD, it is not a sign of weakness; rather, it is proof of your… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.' — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
A very tiny percentage of people with mental illness are also violent. We know this. The constant linking of the two together… — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
As no one knew much about my mental illness, a lot of people had the attitude that I had the capability to… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when you want to help a broken person, your attempts only remind them of their missing pieces.” — Gaia B. Amman Copy Share Image
When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I'm talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I'm not talking about… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
