We rarely know what motivates somebody in their work, and it's usually a particular moment in their life. For me, that moment… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
“Not only is the actual word "hysteria" gendered — it once referred to an exclusively female disease, a mental illness thought to… — Sady Doyle Copy Share Image
“There’s a link between creativity and mental illness,” Lucas continues. “Creative people feel more, think more. They’re more sensitive. Most people try… — Kyla Stone Copy Share Image
The sooner you 'settle' the sooner you'll be allowed home" was the ruling logic; and "if you can't adapt yourself to living… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
“It was the face of a human being who’d been constructed exclusively of wounds. Not time or history or ambition, nothing but… — Ryu Murakami Copy Share Image
The Republican Party cannot be anti-trade, anti-immigrant, not out there practicing the politics of people, you know, the issues surrounding drug addiction… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
The madhouse is in a lot of places, not just a hospital, not just a palace, but also a pattern woven from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yes, I talk about eating disorders and you know, excessive dieting and excessive exercising can be a sign of a mental illness...… — Sophie Gregoire Trudeau Copy Share Image
When I was hospitalized in 1992 with severe clinical depression I thought I was the only one. I didn't know of one… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
“We who were not so pathologically far out on the spectrum of self-involvement, we dwellers of the visible spectrum who could imagine… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society produces the antidote against such deterioration. When pathological… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“As a therapist, I have many avenues in which to learn about DID, but I hear exactly the opposite from clients and… — Deborah Bray Haddock Copy Share Image
He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“There were other strange signals and signs. Another day, suddenly felt an almost overwhelming urge to travel to Balitmore. I wanted to… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“Faced with public discontent about the statist agenda, the Condescendi look out the window at the unlovely mob in their "Don't treat… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“There's no demonstrable link between hoarding and early material deprivation. But there is a link between hoarding and EMOTIONAL deprivation. Many hoarders… — Jessie Sholl Copy Share Image
He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
His impression was that he had been imprisoned in a shelter deep down in the underworld of his personality, listening and biding… — Christer Kihlman Copy Share Image
“One of the main problems for anyone working in health care, social work or addiction treatment is the struggle to hold on… — Linde Zingaro Copy Share Image
“DID is about survival! As more people begin to appreciate this concept, individuals with DID will start to feel less as though… — Deborah Bray Haddock Copy Share Image
“Parents, families, and caregivers are a “minority” group in the mental health system. This population is hungry for knowledge, direction, and peace… — Tamara Hill, MS Copy Share Image
It all made sense - terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had… — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
I was the most important person of the world, and people like the Pope would be just like enemies, who would try… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image
I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Attorney General Becerra was the leading force behind the lawsuit to protect the Affordable Care Act. Yes, he had the audacity to… — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
We can and should complain about certain horrors of the modern world, but when it comes to the treatment of mental illness,… — Rob Delaney Copy Share Image
I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
There was a time when I was way too reliant upon other people's opinions and perspective of me. And I guess over… — Moby Copy Share Image
“When you speak of my insanity, please let it be with the beauty only art knows. Let it bleed till it becomes… — P.H. Wilson Copy Share Image
I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
“Cause I'd rather stay here With all the madmen Than perish with the sadmen roaming free And I'd rather play here With… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
You have to hide what you are and it's really stressful and very bad for your self esteem. Because it's not obvious… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it.… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“One other thing—she was always armed. Ossie May talked about her gun even more than she bragged about her cooking. Out of… — Harold Phifer Copy Share Image
“One of the important things to be aware of with supplements is that too much of certain supplements can induce symptoms of… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
