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
As individuals are best off believing they control their behaviour, the judiciary is best off imputing that control - barring powerful extenuating… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“We should always strive to understand what makes us feel bad... before we feel bad, if possible. As well as what makes… — Alessandro Baronciani 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 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
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
The only way past the pain is through it. Pain, grief, anger, misery...they don't go away-they just increase and compound and get… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
People with mental health problems are almost never dangerous. In fact, they are more likely to be the victims than the perpetrators.… — Roy Blunt Copy Share Image
On one level my sense of despair had been dispelled by therapy, yet on another it had not been replaced by either… — Anthony Loyd Copy Share Image
“I don't want to be the person who gasps in fear whenever she hears the sound of a doorbell or a phone.… — Mira Bartok Copy Share Image
“The drug I take is called schizophrenia, among other labels, which I desperately want to put away. I want to put the… — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
“Indeed, long-term elevated cortisol levels can lower immune function and bone density; elevate blood pressure, cholesterol and body weight; increase the risk… — Matt Lewis Copy Share Image
“When i spend too much time in my head, focused on things in the past or things in the future... when i… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
The disturbed individual who believes himself to be Christ, or to receive messages from God, is something of a cliche in our… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
“Suicide is a form of murder— premeditated murder. It isn’t something you do the first time you think of doing it. It… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“...I am uncontrollable and dangerous. But of course I do not say this to Jake, mostly because he has never been locked… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
“But you must decide whether you are going to pursue reality and health or to retreat into your fantasies . You have… — Talitha Day Fair Copy Share Image
“Szasz opposed any involuntary psychiatric intervention and, along with the Cuckoo’s Nest portrayal, paved the way for the disastrous dismantling of U.S.… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“You see, people in the depressive position are often stigmatised as ‘failures' or ‘losers'. Of course, nothing could be further from the… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
“People with mental illness are very much like people without mental illness only more so. What we lose with a psychotic episode… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Everything in life, except her kids, made her impatient. She had tried to do a million things. She'd wanted to be a… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When… — Judith Lewis Herman 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
And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“I swear that I will never cause trouble for anybody, as long as I live!! So please! Nobody cause any trouble for… — Minoru Furuya Copy Share Image
“I hear a siren and, if we weren’t already in a hospital, I would have assumed they were coming for nearly everyone… — Michael F. Stewart Copy Share Image
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
“The amount of sympathy you get from having an illness is paid out like a Ponzi scheme and psychiatric disorders are all… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
I was depressed at a very young age - mental illness runs in my family, especially on the female side. — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Disability has become a form of permanent welfare for a lot of folks. It's not that hard to prove a mental illness… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had my job, which I loved to do, which I was really good at. I was at the top of my… — Mardy Fish Copy Share Image
“Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
Mental illness lives all around us every day. I've seen it in other family members, I've seen it in friends, and I've… — Rachel Hollis Copy Share Image
“We have a mental health system that is dominated by political and hidden forces that keep us stagnated and unable to see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
