They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place. — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
“My insides contract- bad. "who are you?" I ask right out loud. And he says what I've been afraid of since I… — Bonnie Shimko Copy Share Image
“if half the cells inside of you are not you, doesn't that challenge the whole notion of me as a singular pronoun,… — John Green Copy Share Image
I have an illness. I have a mental illness. I've accepted that now. Before, I used to beat myself up all the… — Paul Merson Copy Share Image
The most evil and insidious thing about mental illness is that it isolates us and makes us feel so different that we… — Shannon Purser Copy Share Image
I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
People accuse me of glamorizing mental illness. Looking back sometimes, that's true. But I don't feel guilty. — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
“~~You are not alone~~ No, really. Literally. Maybe you have always known (or suspected) this. Maybe this news is shocking, baffling, dismaying,… — A.T.W Copy Share Image
I will alway support anybody being vocal about their mental illness, how they're dealing with it, and how it affects them. And… — Joe Budden Copy Share Image
Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
“This painful mental illness is not fair, but saying it is not fair does not change anything. Thinking that you should not… — Valerie Porr M.A Copy Share Image
I have been struggling with mental illness and emptiness throughout my life. Now I want people to understand my glorious quest for… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Children whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies are much less likely to reoffend.… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
“I wish bad brain stuff was an actual guy I could punch in the face. PTSD, panic attacks, anxiety, flashbacks, hallucinations, anything… — RoAnna Sylver Copy Share Image
“It is necessary to make this point in answer to the 'iatrogenic' theory that the unveiling of repressed memories in MPD sufferers,… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“In the absence of any therapy, the mentally ill of the 20th century were chained, shackled, straitjacketed, kept nude, electrocuted, half-frozen, parboiled,… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“The disorders that psychology associates with the dissonance between what parents say to children and what children know to be reality -… — Hugh Brody Copy Share Image
“The distinction between diseases of "brain" and "mind," between "neurological" problems and "psychological" or "psychiatric" ones, is an unfortunate cultural inheritance that… — António R. Damásio Copy Share Image
“One of the paradoxical and transformative aspects of implicit traumatic memory is that once it is accessed in a resourced way (through… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view,… — Clare Boylan Copy Share Image
“The programme into which Cheryl was inducted combined all the different ways the intelligence community had learned could cause intense psychological change… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“The drone told him one in ten of the people he passed on the street would be treated for mental illness at… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“Prideful fool. It hurt his feelings that he couldn’t make my crazy go away. You know how men are. Always trying to… — Ken Wheaton Copy Share Image
I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything. — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
I don't know why I feel so crazy...I feel like I'm going through a stargate. Maybe it's the diet pills. Maybe it's… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
We know that mental illness is not something that happens to other people. It touches us all. Why then is mental illness… — Tipper Gore Copy Share Image
“Crisis is what suppressed pain looks like; it always comes to the surface. It shakes you into reflection and healing.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The biggest advice I can give loved ones who are supporting someone navigating a newly diagnosed mental illness is patience, patience, and… — Madchen Amick Copy Share Image
It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is… — Carson Kressley Copy Share Image
I think people are interesting enough. People with mental illness, or just real people going through real circumstances in life. — Charlie Heaton Copy Share Image
“Self-stigma refers to the state in which a person with mental illness has come to internalize the negative attitudes about mental illness… — Patrick W. Corrigan Copy Share Image
“Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel says we are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember. Who am… — Mira Bartok Copy Share Image
Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the… — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
I think love is one that can definitely make you go crazy, and it's almost like love can induce mental illness in… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
In the same way that we want to expand mental health service for people with mental illness, we also need to make… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself. — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
There should be no more shame in acknowledging (mental illness) than in acknowledging a battle with high blood pressure or the sudden… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image