The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“it’s important for people to hear from [those] who have good fulfilling lives and manage chronic mental illness as part of those… — John Green Copy Share Image
“If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain… — Diane Wood Middlebrook Copy Share Image
I think the science around mental illness is always evolving. There's always new kinds of thinking. — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
“The only time it's hopeless is when you're dead! Long as you're alive, you can get better - you can make it… — RoAnna Sylver Copy Share Image
“There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul.” — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
“The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find… — Joanna Cannon Copy Share Image
The people I know who suffer from mental illness, sometimes they do connect you to what it is to be really human.… — Maya Forbes Copy Share Image
“I was struck by the image of Daddy still dressed in that same plaid shirt and undershirt with the bloodstains below the… — Earl B. Russell Copy Share Image
If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it… — Tommy Douglas Copy Share Image
“In Martin Seligman's words, 'Psychology is half-baked, literally half-baked. We have baked the part about mental illness. We have baked the part… — Donald O. Clifton Copy Share Image
This is a word that is not a scientific term. This is a rhetorical tool of psychological manipulation... Because everyone knows if… — Scott Lively Copy Share Image
I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
“ I'm here , I said, but I knew, increasingly, I wasn't here, and I felt that able-to-weep-and-be-seen version of myself that… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“The Flock have come a long way in their acceptance of this, and when a professional refused to deal with them in… — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
You need community support. You're pretty defeated when you're laid low with a mental illness. It's a frightening place to be, and… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
“I remembered during puberty, through the anorexic mists of intermittent menstrual cycles, that man, my father, lifting Shirley's nightdress over her head… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
“And you know the darkness beyond despair, just as intimately as you know the soaring heights. Because in this and all universes,… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“Ivanov: No, my clever young thing, it's not a question of romance. I say as before God that I will endure everything… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Marxism in the Soviet Union had been boiled down to the understanding that people—Soviet citizens—were shaped entirely by their society and the… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“We have been focusing on the role that psychiatry and its medications may be playing in this epidemic, and the evidence is… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
I've never had a sustained period of medication for mental illness when I've not been on other drugs as well. It's just… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“Mental illness is no different than a heart condition. In the same way a faulty valve can cause harm to the body… — Heidi Cullinan Copy Share Image
“Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia.” — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
“...all I could think about was how both sets of parents had needed to make their decision, on whether to medicate their… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.” — John Green Copy Share Image
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The problem with mental illness, as opposed to physical illness, is that it involves wrong thinking or impaired insight. You're not thinking… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
In India, there is a huge stigma attached to one having a mental illness; this not only makes it worse for the… — Ananya Birla Copy Share Image
You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only… — Pete Earley Copy Share Image
Statistics show that 25% of women are on medication for mental illness. That's bloody scary. It means 75% are running around with… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know? — Moby Copy Share Image
“Sadness wasn't a disease you could catch, as far as I know, but from what I seen, people treated it like it… — L.M. Bryski Copy Share Image
“I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor shades confined… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive. — James Dean Bradfield Copy Share Image
There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
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