“Healing begins when we stop hiding pain and start honoring it with compassion and care.” — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself. — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness. — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me. — George McGovern Copy Share Image
“You want to be there for me but an anxiety attack is a solitary activity.” — R. YS Perez Copy Share Image
Not talking about mental illness is killing people. We need that to stop. — Mauro Ranallo Copy Share Image
Physically, I'm healthy as a horse, always held up. But in the mental illness department, I got my share. It's just what… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
“I mention a paradox of psychiatry: mental illness is recognized by the patient's distorted thoughts, but treatment is largely indifferent to their… — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Mental illness didn’t really change people. It just made them more of who they were going to be anyway. Mental illness was… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
“Sadness wasn't a disease you could catch, as far as I know, but from what I seen, people treated it like it… — L.M. Bryski Copy Share Image
“I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor shades confined… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive. — James Dean Bradfield Copy Share Image
There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Every pore of you is crying and you don't even understand why or what. I actually kind of died and got born… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
I think of emotional well-being as a resource within each of us that allows us to do more and to perform better.… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its… — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
The most dangerous thing, when you have a serious mental illness, is convincing yourself that you don't have it. And you see… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
One [of the two ideas for PROOF] was to write about two sisters who are quarreling over the legacy of something left… — David Auburn Copy Share Image
So long as men denounce each other as mentally sick (homosexual, addicted, insane, and so forth) so that the madman can always… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“Do you ever feel as if everything surrounding you is in slow motion, moving through tar? There you are - and there's… — Kyle Labe Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
“You survived by seizing every tiny drop of love you could find anywhere, and milking it, relishing it, for all it was… — Rachel Reiland Copy Share Image
“I resolved to come right to the point. "Hello," I said as coldly as possible, "we've got to talk." "Yes, Bob," he… — Robert B. Oxnam Copy Share Image
“The Kinsey staff asked questions of children, learning about sexuality in the family. And other psychologists, psychiatrists and paediatricians, including Benjamin Spock,… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable… — Frances Farmer Copy Share Image
“With thousands of years of history frozen in time, it's no wonder that many southerners like me romanticize the north as a… — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
“Because now mental health disorders have gone “mainstream”. And for all the good it’s brought people like me who have been given… — Holly Bourne Copy Share Image
The very term ['mental disease'] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more… — E. Fuller Torrey Copy Share Image
Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of… — John A. Stormer Copy Share Image
Children certainly can't learn if they're dealing with trauma or mental illness. — Kim Reynolds Copy Share Image
Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice. — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. — Richard Carlson Copy Share Image
“You cannot breathe life into someone refusing to inhale." Colleen Songs” — Colleen Songs Copy Share Image
Mental illness, hate and anger exist everywhere, but in America too often it comes armed. — Lucy McBath Copy Share Image
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