As no one knew much about my mental illness, a lot of people had the attitude that I had the capability to… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A very tiny percentage of people with mental illness are also violent. We know this. The constant linking of the two together… — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
Life can be anxiety provoking, and the more we talk about mental health, the more we normalize it and help remove the… — Alisyn Camerota Copy Share Image
We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.' — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment. — Gail Devers Copy Share Image
Give up smoking. Don't get so fat. So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good… — Anton du Beke Copy Share Image
I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not… — David Thewlis Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“Mental illness" is among the most stigmatized of categories.' People are ashamed of being mentally ill. They fear disclosing their condition to… — Elyn R. Saks Copy Share Image
The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Dearest Lord, may I see you today and every day in the person of your sick, and, whilst nursing them, minister unto… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it.… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion. Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was… — Alonzo Mourning Copy Share Image
Homelessness, open air drug use and mental illness - which we all see in this city - are things we've been relying… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
At whatever time highly skilled physicians shall have developed the healing of illnesses by means of foods, and shall make provision for… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
“We have a duty tonight. Everybody, and guys this for you as well because I know you know women. You have a… — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might… — Tracy Thompson Copy Share Image
I used to refer to my photos as free radicals - and maybe that has to do with this idea of navigating… — Elad Lassry Copy Share Image
The need for mythic statements is satisfied when we frame a view of the world which adequately explains the meaning of human… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The stark and tragic images of human suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reminded us yet again that civil rights… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
The illness has only made certain ambivalences I'd always been conscious of that much more acute. Life versus Death, the absolute randomness… — Ben Doller Copy Share Image
I have been dealing with illness and its manifestations since I was a teenager, and I think that gives me a very… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
We've all got people who have experienced mental illness, and my mum was a community nurse for a while. — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
If you don't support people with mental illnesses they are more likely to develop a physical illness too and that is challenging. — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well. — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
We're used to comeback stories in the world of sports, but the Gail Devers story is remarkable. This is a comeback from… — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bipolar disorder is a scary disease, but it is manageable. And I feel blessed that I was able to get the right… — Eric Millegan Copy Share Image
“Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail…the snail kept my spirit from evaporating.” — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Copy Share Image
The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness. — John Henry Cox Copy Share Image
I am privileged to have people around me who understand mental illnesses and mental health. However, the stigma around it is huge. — Ananya Birla Copy Share Image
Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normalbranch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a… — Harry Segall Archie Mayo Dr Max Higgins Copy Share Image
Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast. I'm not talking about onset or duration. I mean the quality of the… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“Boy, you really break things down, don't you?' Some say it is an illness.' We should all be so ill.” — Francisco X. Stork Copy Share Image
I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When they are treated, the seriously mentally ill aren't more violent than the general population. If untreated, though, they are. — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
