Mental illness and depression are the reason why I no longer have a father. — Caroline Calloway Copy Share Image
I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive. — James Dean Bradfield Copy Share Image
Depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and it is not cured by medication. Depression may not even… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In terms of earthly life as you understand it, it is overly optimistic to imagine that eventually all illnesses will be conquered,… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
While receiving radiation treatment for a thyroid illness, I had refused to take beta-blockers - a medication that would have eased its… — Gail Devers Copy Share Image
There are really exciting things happening in genetic and neurobiology right now, and really looking at the ways in which different not… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image
"...The large majority of those infectious microbes that cause us so much illness and pain are ANAEROBIC...a big word that means they… — Ed McCabe Copy Share Image
All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger. — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
“Until you have stood in another woman’s stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
There's no straight line between closing the mental institutions and filling the prisons but there is some sort of relationship. And it's… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
I've seen people recover physical abilities, yet never get over emotional trauma after a serious accident. I've seen other people overcome the… — Jim Stovall Copy Share Image
There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and… — Solomon Ibn Gabirol Copy Share Image
My mother had never had a day's illness in her life and never thought to have checks. Then, at 78, she discovered… — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining"… — Ludwig Wittgenstein 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
I was hoping that I could say stuff about mental illness that maybe people didn't know. You know, speak up for bipolar… — Eric Millegan Copy Share Image
