“When we asked him to sum up his impression of the girls' emotional state at that point, he said, "Buffeted but not… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“After my first few tastes I was pretty much hooked. I'd have dry spells, months without any or only piddling amounts of… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“This was a characteroloical prelude, but it wasn’t chemical or somatic. It was the anatomy of melancholy, not the anatomy of his… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude. — Mark Spitz Copy Share Image
“As special as it is to listen to your friends argue over whether or not you have a mental illness,I'm starting to… — Kendare Blake Copy Share Image
“It felt like this was never going to end. The world wasn't going to stop crashing down until there was nothing left… — Keary Taylor Copy Share Image
I know what mental illness looks like, and I know that if a person is not ready to get help, they won't. — Jenifer Lewis Copy Share Image
“Staying for your children is noble. However, staying with someone that teaches your children that "selective" evilness is okay is mental illness.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
To be on the safe and humane side, let every relative and friend ... remember the golden rule, which has never been… — Clifford Whittingham Beers Copy Share Image
“I've got to that point in life when there's very few thrills and lots of pills seems we all end up this… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“The very use of the term "mental illness" (rather than, say, "neurosis", "insanity", "nervous breakdown", or other euphemisms) can be seen as… — Carl Elliott Copy Share Image
“This is as close as I've ever heard to a Thomas and Carmel argument. And as special as it is to listen… — Kendare blake Copy Share Image
“Bipolar illness, manic depression, manic-depressive illness, manic-depressive psychosis. That’s a nice way of saying you will feel so high that no street… — Christine F. Anderson Copy Share Image
It's my belief that, since the end of the Second World War, psychology has moved too far away from its original roots,… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Every day on our streets there are people who are facing a combination of homelessness, mental illness, and addiction. Each of these… — London Breed Copy Share Image
There's no straight line between closing the mental institutions and filling the prisons but there is some sort of relationship. And it's… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
“If there is something intangible about mental illness generally, depression is all the harder to define because it tends to creep in… — Daphne Merkine Copy Share Image
“GREED is truly the most terrible challenge of our times, and capitalism is its tool, its means to power and more greed.… — William Donelson Copy Share Image
“Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to:… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“There will be plenty of people who will attempt to belittle or humiliate you because you have an illness, they are ignorant… — Carol Franklin Copy Share Image
“Over and over again, the same message, 'you are not enough'. You hear it enough times and it weaves itself into you,… — Lauren Miller Copy Share Image
“Other personalities are created to handle new traumas, their existence usually occurring one at a time. Each has a singular purpose and… — Lynn Hersha Copy Share Image
“Today, our view of genuine reality is increasingly clouded by professionals whose technical expertise often introduces a superficial and soulless model of… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
Sometimes the pain hurts so good it brings happy tears to my eyes and reminds me I'm still alive. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.” — Allie Burke Copy Share Image
I said to my doctor, 'You gotta testme, there's something wrong with me that I would be behaving this way.' — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
“If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well.” — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
“Thoughts are only thoughts.They are not you, you belong to yourself even when your thoughts don't.” — John Green Copy Share Image
Mental illness was a family secret. This patient had four children grow up in foster homes, and they never knew her. It… — Sean Moran Copy Share Image
“The ancient Greeks considered love a mental illness that led to suicide, homicide, betrayal, war, all sorts of fun.” — Marion G. Harmon Copy Share Image
When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“victim noun \ˈvik-təm\ 1. The moment you tell everyone you have a mental disorder, in order to excuse your behavior.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
We must bring the issue of mental illness out into the sunlight, out of the shadow, out of the closet, deal with… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but… — Jim Carrey 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
Mental illness is real, and I got them. I don't know if it's the multiple concussions or the lifestyle choices. — Scott Hall Copy Share Image
“Tell me, just how many lives need to be lost until someone realises the impact that their words can have on another… — Isha Barlas 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
