Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad,… — Frank Bruno Copy Share Image
I like my psychiatrist she's kind, caring and compassionate but what woman wouldn't be for over a 100 dollars an hour? — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Depression is something that has always figured in my life but now I'm dealing with it. I wish I'd done this years… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
“He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.” — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day… — Frank Bruno Copy Share Image
“I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world,… — J. Cornell Michel Copy Share Image
Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that's part… — Adam Duritz Copy Share Image
All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“Like many self-help books, The Deepest Blue is full of horrifyingly simplistic language and some admittedly good advice. Somehow the women in… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“A second of intense pain is the most profound thing you can live through. And another, and another, and another, and then… — Stacy Pershall Copy Share Image
“But pain's like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There's no way to stop it. Sometimes you have… — Katie Kacvinsky Copy Share Image
“I read and read and read with an intensity I’d never really known before. I mean, I’d always considered myself to be… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
My highest achievement: never shutting my heart down. Even in my darkest moments - through sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 14, lies… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“Did I imagine the castle, the dungeon, the ritual orgies and violations? Did Lucy, Billy, Samuel, Eliza, Shirley and Kato make it… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“His body had become a companion which seemed always about to leave him: it had its own pains which moved him to… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Having a mental illness is like riding a really fast merry-go-round that never stops. There's no escape. You're stuck. But once in… — Cassia Leo Copy Share Image
“Okay, so when is the mother ship coming to pick us up?” I ask worriedly. “The what?” Reed asks with confusion clouding… — Amy A. Bartol Copy Share Image
“Sadly, psychiatric training still includes far too little on the very serious psychiatric sequelae of childhood trauma, especially CSA [child sexual abuse].… — Joan Coleman Copy Share Image
“It's not that there are no challenges to becoming a vegetarian or vegan, but in the media, including authors of popular books… — Sunaura Taylor Copy Share Image
“What sticks with me now is that this man said he needed to get to a hospital. He probably needed to reach… — Susan Nielsen Copy Share Image
“The depressed person is mired in the past; the manic person is obsessed with the future. Both destroy the present in the… — Nassir Ghaemi Copy Share Image
In fact, people with mental illness are more likely to be the victims of violence rather than anything else. So it's important… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
“You are a warrior in a dark forest, with no compass and are unable to tell who the actual enemy is, So… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With depression, you can go in and out of it and not really know whether it's still there or not. Sometimes I'd… — Keisha Buchanan Copy Share Image
We need employers to have an open mind about people with mental illness, and be willing to employ people, with the right… — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
“You're surrounded by people and voices and noises, but there you are, alone and trembling inside. And you want to be invisible.… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity. — John Astin Copy Share Image
Depressions are very cyclical, they happen once every five years. When I was on TV, yes I was effervescent, you can't fake… — Ruby Wax Copy Share Image
“People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed and open about it than somebody perfect and...you know...… — Ned Vizzini It's kind of a Funny Story Copy Share Image
Finding a calm place inside myself through meditation kind of helped me to get over a lot of mental illness ... it's… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time. — Stephanie S. Tolan Copy Share Image
“Everyone wanted me to feed them that story—darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too.” — John Green Copy Share Image
When I was sectioned for six months, that was one of the worst experiences of my life, not being able to go… — Adam Ant Copy Share Image
“Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“SAMHSA treatment referral helpline: 1-877- SAMHSA7. It can be a long and difficult road, but mental illness is treatable. There is hope,… — John Green Copy Share Image
![“[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.” quote by Sam Harris](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1c5/sam-harris-457_atheism_i-t-is-difficult-to-imagine-a-set-of-bel_835263.jpg)
![“Sadly, psychiatric training still includes far too little on the very serious psychiatric sequelae of childhood trauma, especially CSA [child sexual abuse]. There is inadequate recognition within mental health services of the prevalence and importance of Dissociative Disorders, sufferers of which…” quote by Joan Coleman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b8c/joan-coleman-72352_borderline-personali_sadly-psychiatric-training-still-include_2412907.jpg)
![“Depressions are very cyclical, they happen once every five years. When I was on TV, yes I was effervescent, you can't fake it. It [depression] comes like the pox.” quote by Ruby Wax](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/715/ruby-wax-18576_depression_depressions-are-very-cyclical-they-happe_616519.jpg)
