We don't just want to eradicate illness. We want people to achieve their full potential. — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
“She was always fighting a battle but her smile would never tell you so.” — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
Anyone living in Los Angeles who says they don't need a psychiatrist, needs a psychiatrist. — Kathy Lette Copy Share Image
I think people who go to a psychiatrist ought to have their heads examined. — Jane Ace Copy Share Image
You've got everything except one thing: madness! A man needs a little madness, or else... — Anthony Quinn Copy Share Image
Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad,… — Frank Bruno Copy Share Image
I was sent to boarding school at the age of ten. I think Mummy was trying to protect me in her own… — Lysette Anthony Copy Share Image
My alcoholism was an illness. It was in my DNA, my genes. Both my parents were addicts and I have an addictive… — Tony Adams Copy Share Image
There should be no more shame in acknowledging (mental illness) than in acknowledging a battle with high blood pressure or the sudden… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“At six months, 36 percent of patients reported new-onset fatigue, 20 percent reported widespread pain, and 45 percent reported neurocognitive difficulties.” — Pamela Weintraub Copy Share Image
Choose to look at illness and death in positive ways rather than negatively will help to give your life here on the… — Phylameana Lila Desy Copy Share Image
“Stay focused on what is beautiful and abundant even as illness carves more and more of what you love away” — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
In the same way that we want to expand mental health service for people with mental illness, we also need to make… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these… — John Green Copy Share Image
Everyone needs to remember that Ebola was not a worst-case scenario. Preparedness for the future means preparedness for a very severe disease… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
People with what we call mental illness can indeed serve well, and people who have no discernible mental illness - and that… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
No parent, family member, or friend should be told that treatment isn't available for their loved one. By establishing a dedicated and… — Kim Reynolds Copy Share Image
“No one ever expects to become ill, it just sort of happens to us. For some, it is a slow process, while… — Jennifer Corter Copy Share Image
The evidence is overwhelming that marijuana can relieve certain types of pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms caused by such illnesses as… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
Friends and family were convinced I was functioning just fine because I was efficient, productive and successful - who wouldn't be working… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
I have built up so much stuff , I am afraid I would cry forever, or have to go to sleep for… — Elizabeth Lesser 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
I was in Korea. I've noticed all my life I see elderly people who have been close to death in an illness… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't… — Bebe Moore Campbell Copy Share Image
Just look at the list of who the lowest-paid people are. Pediatricians are at the bottom. You would also look at internists.… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Have you ever observed somebody go through a religious conversion? The person seems perfectly reasonable to you and has no particular concern… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
“Statistics say that a range of mental disorders affects more than one in four Americans in any given year. That means millions… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
For many years now I have listened to the stories of people with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses as their counselor. From… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
[I] learned ... that friends are a good source of food and soul when one has not yet gotten the hang of… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
HATING is an emotional disease... so for those who hate me... Hope you get well soon... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The supplement industry is the biggest threat to the pharmaceutical industry.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
Without knowing the cause of illness, any treatment must be considered a guess. — Richard Diaz Copy Share Image