I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died? — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
It is as imperative to take care of our minds as is our bodies and hence seeking help for mental illness is… — Ananya Birla Copy Share Image
“I rehearsed Foucault's argument that the presence of madness on our doorstep is good for us, for it reminds us the life… — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a… — Heather Armstrong Copy Share Image
We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious… — Patricia Deegan Copy Share Image
... it is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person. — George Howe Colt Copy Share Image
I just felt as though I would never be happy again, and as if I had fallen into a big black hole. — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
Emotional well-being is more than the absence of a mental illness. It's that resource within each of us which allows us to… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
My honesty about mental illness has helped open a door for real conversation, and I think Justin wants to continue that conversation.… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
I think Hell exists on Earth. It's a psychological state, or it can be a physical state. People who have severe mental… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
How crazy craziness makes everyone, how irrationally afraid. The madness hidden in each of us, called to, identified, aroused like a lust.… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
“Hey, Mom, I'm a married woman now. I want to have ten babies and live here forever and ever." How weird is… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“I ended up sitting right next to Sexy Patty. The placement wasn’t on purpose. (I needed the hands of God, not a… — Harold Phifer Copy Share Image
“The worst part about anxiety attacks, is that you’re aware it’s irrational and sometimes unexplainable, but knowing that gives no aid what… — Ami Desu Copy Share Image
Some view mental illness as a purely spiritual issue and deny the need for medication or other forms of treatment. Others view… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
“My mind feels like a race car on the track, getting faster and faster every time I pause to think or blink… — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
“Capitalist realism insists on treating mental health as if it were a natural fact, like weather (but, then again, weather is no… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
What I want is to talk about how someone raised Muslim struggles with the same stuff that everyone else theoretically could. Obviously,… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
And all that weirdness isn't just going on outside. It's in you too, right now, growing in the dark like magic mushrooms.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“If the whole world seems like it's against you, it helps to know that you've still got home. A safe place. It… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“When you have a persistent sense of heartbreak and gutwrench, the physical sensations become intolerable and we will do anything to make… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Physically, I'm healthy as a horse, always held up. But in the mental illness department, I got my share. It's just what… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
“I mention a paradox of psychiatry: mental illness is recognized by the patient's distorted thoughts, but treatment is largely indifferent to their… — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Mental illness didn’t really change people. It just made them more of who they were going to be anyway. Mental illness was… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When you cry out in pain from a broken wrist, no one questions it. You just go to the hospital and take… — Torrey DeVitto Copy Share Image
There are people who are profoundly mentally ill. But we now have a very weird perspective on mental illness and what it… — K. Flay Copy Share Image
The first thing that happens to someone with a mental illness, in the throes of it, is that they lose all their… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
Here are the ingredients of a tragedy: untreated mental illness, a society where life is cheap and crime is glamorized, and a… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
You get such a kick and then it's all over. That's good ground for uncertainty and depression. I usually burst into tears. — Kylie Minogue Copy Share Image
“That’s what mountains do, they taunt you, lure you to the freedom of the wilderness, and it is fucking exhilarating.” — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to feel marginalized and defeated and humiliated by suffering from a mental illness. — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They're the perfect loving fam'ly, so adoring... And I love them ev'ry day of ev'ry week. So my son's a little shit,… — Brian Yorkey Copy Share Image
It is a technique ideally suited to prevent physical and mental illness and to protect the body generally, developing an inevitable sense… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself.… — Clara Hughes Copy Share Image
