Mental illness Quotes · Page 28

If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if…

— Anthony Storr

“Taxpayers and legislators alike seem generally ignorant of the extent to which they are being soaked by the hidden costs of this…

— Ron Powers

The funny part of it all is that relatively few people seem to go crazy, relatively few even a little crazy or…

— Gertrude Stein

Mental illness doesn't choose the most talented or the smartest or the richest or the poorest. It shows no mercy and often…

— Steve Lopez

“One of the many facets of Navajo culture that appeals to me is the lack of value attached to vengeance. This ‘eye…

— Anne Hillerman

“The report, “The Impact of Mental Illness Stigma on Seeking and Participating in Mental Health Care,” and the accompanying commentary, “Creating and…

— Anonymous

Vancouver houses one of North America's largest open air drug markets and has a dense and heartbreaking problem with homelessness and mental…

— Mark Brand

“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in…

— Jennifer Niven

“To the men and women who changed Cheryl Hersha's life, she was a continuation of the research that had first been conducted…

— Lynn Hersha

Even with all that - excellent treatment, wonderful family and friends, supportive work environment - I did not make my illness public…

— Elyn Saks

“I see things in windows and I say to myself that I want them. I want them because I want to belong.…

— Dave Matthes

“In our family "whim-wham" is code, a defanged reference to any number of moods and psychological disorders, be they depressive, manic, or…

— David Lovelace

“At the lip of a cliff, I look out over Lake Superior, through the bare branches of birches and the snow-covered branches…

— Marya Hornbacher

“I’ve found that it’s of some help to think of one’s moods and feelings about the world as being similar to weather.…

— Stephen Fry

“The best part of having superpowers is that most of the time other people do not even know that you have them—…

— Brenna Twohy

“The first thing that went wrong, according to Fat, had to do with the radio. Listening to it one night- he had…

— Philip K. Dick

What we're seeing at the moment is people being radicalised or adopting Islamist, murderous Islamist ideology very, very quickly so that you…

— Malcolm Turnbull

Mental illness is by far the most misunderstood, and stigmatized, of all afflictions. Statistically, one in three families in the U.S. deals…

— Neal Shusterman

I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I…

— Anonymous

You certainly can't prevent all mental health problems - factors like genetics and traumatic life events certainly play a role. But everyone…

— Amy Morin

Being a depressive should not imply danger any more than being a man or even a human should. Mental illness isn't a…

— Matt Haig

“I loved the idea of a subversive world where mental illness was defined as just another version of normal, and education was…

— Heather Sellers

“I would always be like this, always have this within me. There was no beating it. I would never slay the dragon,…

— John Green

“As I accept the flowers, I release my grip on the balloons, and they bounce gently against the ceiling the way they…

— Shannon M Mullen

“Aside from being famous, what do Beethoven, Mark Rothko, Hemingway, Francis Ford Coppola, Van Gogh, Alvin Ailey, Robin Williams, Sylvia Plath, Balzac,…

— B.A. Shapiro

... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not…

— D. H. Lawrence

Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on…

— Al Alvarez

“VII of Denmark, he became regent of Denmark when the king’s life-long mental illness grew extreme enough to create a power vacuum.…

— Frank Schaeffer

It can be difficult for people to talk about it, because there still is that stigma around mental illness. But I would…

— Matt Haig

When I started writing Tales of the City I was one year away from being a mental illness. It wasn't until 1975…

— Armistead Maupin

“Ever since puberty, ever since I was 11 or 12, I've had cyclical depression. That's something that has been a defining feature…

— Rachel Maddow

There was not an episode [on Perception] that didn't deal with some form of mental illness, either my own, or I would…

— Eric McCormack

“Maybe I am losing it. They say a big sign of mental illness is not knowing you have it. But isn't it…

— Dakota Lane

I was in danger of having my children taken away from me when I needed five weeks in psychiatric care ... There…

— Trisha Goddard

I'm trying to push for common-sense gun reform and mental illness reform so we can make sure that these individuals that have…

— David Hogg

Everything previously moving with the grain is now against - you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable, and enmeshed totally in the blackest…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“I used to feel like i was on the top of the world. Then one day, i noticed that it felt like…

— Colleen Hoover

I can't describe the feeling when I go down - it's down down down and there's never going to be an up…

— John Marsden

A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach."…

— Tracy Thompson

“I know the empathy borne of despair; I know the fluidity of thought, the expansive, even beautiful, mind that hypomania brings, and…

— David Lovelace