It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
I think love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“I find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti.” — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
“The best thing you can do with a crazy neighbor is to move before they lose control.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over. — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
If evil is empathy erosion, and empathy erosion is a form of illness, then evil turns out to be nothing more than… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
It's absolutely crucial that we look at mental health not just through the prism of health but in a cross-cutting way. — Luciana Berger 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
We are far betting dealing with the big losses-death, divorce, debt, and debilitating illness-than with the daily onslaught of little losses. — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and… — Anais Nin 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
You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Should a man, to preserve his life, pay everything that gives life colour, scent and excitement? Can one accept a life of… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I think we need to talk about mental illness a lot more. People complain about tax dollars and say we don't have… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
This program could destroy private initiative for our aged to protect themselves with insurance against the cost of illness…Presently, over 60 percent… — Milward L. Simpson Copy Share Image
Sexual desire may burn like fire, but when you give a thought to when you are ill, then your excitement dies down.… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form… — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
The human race was in need of salvation because of the perversity of sin. For when people who are ill are cured… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, you can learn something completely mind-blowing in yoga and then totally forget about it the minute you need it the most.… — Anne Clendening 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
With 28 million children eating lunch at school every day in the United States, I believe government has an obligation to ensure… — Rosa DeLauro Copy Share Image
I know girls who pine for it. They like to play dress-up and pretend being Vor ladies of old, rescued from menace… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“Classifying depression as an illness serves the psychiatric community and pharmaceutical corporations well; it also soothes the frightened, guilty, indifferent, busy, sadistic,… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
You could stand here sick with ten illnesses today, and tomorrow have no evidence of any of them. Your body has the… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
The assumption that everything past is preserved holds good even in mental life only on condition that the organ of the mind… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The distinction between diseases of "brain" and "mind," between "neurological" problems and "psychological" or "psychiatric" ones, is an unfortunate cultural inheritance that… — António R. Damásio Copy Share Image
Well, I thought, last night I paid my dues. I faced death. Now I can stay. — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Oxygen deprivation and supplemental oxygen are both bio-hazards for Mauna Kea workers” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I was a psycho woman. It felt like something in me that I had no control over. — Katie Price Copy Share Image
“The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!” — Patrick W. Corrigan Copy Share Image