The war on drugs is very, very real, and the war on helping people with mental illness is very, very real. — Wendy Williams Copy Share Image
We simply want gun legislation in this country that allows law-abiding citizens to still own guns or prevents people with a history… — David Hogg Copy Share Image
I could feel myself begin to recede, to tip and lose balance, slide toward the deeper darkness that had crept in from… — Bryan Mealer Copy Share Image
I'd love for mental illness to be seen in the way that other horrible illnesses are. When people get cancer, very few… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Mental illness, unfortunately, is an invisible disease: it's not seen or heard. For whatever reason, because of that, society has decided that… — Mauro Ranallo Copy Share Image
The more and more I spoke about it, the more I found out how many people deal with it, the more I… — Mardy Fish Copy Share Image
Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
True, God hates Alzheimer's, spinal cord injury, mental illness, autism, and the rest (these conditions are all symptoms of the Fall). Yet… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
“We must understand that those who experience abuse as children, and particularly those who experience incest, almost invariably suffer from a profound… — Cameron West Copy Share Image
“Eventually my mother suffered a complete breakdown, and the court orders were finally signed. They took her to the State Mental Hospital… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We have a serious problem with incarceration in this country. It's destroying families, it's destroying communities and we're the most incarcerated country… — John Legend Copy Share Image
“While the first few explosions might be written off as coincidence, or even bad luck, somewhere around the tenth destroyed vehicle a… — J.A. Konrath Copy Share Image
“Anxiety isn't an attack that explodes out of me; it's not a volcano that lies dormant until it's triggered by an earth-shattering… — Jen Wilde; queens of geek Copy Share Image
“Am I cured?” “No. You’re someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“You aren’t falling apart. You’re well beyond that. You’re just rattling along now. Elven dolls doing what little you can to gather… — Darrell Drake Copy Share Image
I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm shocked that sleep hygiene is not a global priority, and even more irate that my three children are expected to maintain… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Homelessness, open air drug use and mental illness - which we all see in this city - are things we've been relying… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
There's no shame in speaking about mental illness. It's a very common problem in today's society, no matter if you're playing sports… — Robin Soderling Copy Share Image
“Sometime in high school it dawned on me that perhaps I was a little different...I realized music wasn't swirling in the minds… — Robin Spielberg Copy Share Image
To leave behind what was in reality a hell, and immediately have this good green earth revealed in more glory than most… — Clifford Whittingham Beers Copy Share Image
Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
We are a conspiracy of hope and we are pressing back against the strong tide of oppression which for centuries has been… — Patricia Deegan Copy Share Image
“I’ve never had anorexia, but I know it well. I see it on the street, in the gaunt and sunken face, the… — Harriet Brown Copy Share Image
“Mental illness" is among the most stigmatized of categories.' People are ashamed of being mentally ill. They fear disclosing their condition to… — Elyn R. Saks Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“For generations, parents have shaped 'fine' but deeply restless human beings. We may know 'how to act' but we're losing sight of… — Rebecca Eanes Copy Share Image
“There is stability in self-destruction, in prolonging sadness as a means of escaping abstractions like happiness. Rock bottom is a surprisingly comfortable… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
I enjoy the fact that, as a gay man, there's relatively little pressure on me to act like a grown-up, but also… — Vestal McIntyre Copy Share Image
“The maladies of the spirit alone, in abstracto, that is, error and sin, can be called diseases of the mind only per… — Ernst Von Feuchtersleben Copy Share Image
“With psychiatric medications, you solve one problem for a period of time, but the next thing you know you end up with… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
This is a common misconception about antidepressants: many people believe they're simply 'happy pills' that will wipe a person's emotional slate clean.… — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
My mother struggled immensely with mental illness, and so did I. She grew up bipolar, but it was never diagnosed nor recognized.… — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
We have a dysfunctional dream of the planet, and humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear. The symptoms of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To the extent that self-expression does broadcast and reinforce a person's character, it clarifies a link between art, eccentricity, and mental illness.… — Alice Weaver Flaherty Copy Share Image
“The local police was her brother Martin, the sheriff. Her father was the Assistant Chief of Police. The last thing she was… — Elizabeth Garden Copy Share Image
Seeing movies about mental illness, a lot of falseness has leapt out at me over the years... So I just focused on… — Maya Forbes Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
