I've struggled more with guys, depression drugs, family and career than I ever have with my illness. I'm not an innocent and… — Claire Wineland Copy Share Image
A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
People don't realize how many of the homeless are single moms, and a lot of veterans, and people with mental illness. — Joe Maddon Copy Share Image
Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I always feel bad laughing at people who act crazy. But sometimes the things they do are so damned funny. I wonder… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
I am convinced that nine out of every ten persons seeing a psychiatrist do not need one. They need someone who will… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
The more you know about something, the harder it becomes. You become more and more of a perfectionist. I think it's a… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Many tribal peoples consider illness to be one of the most reliable sources of revelation. Many of the practices that traditional religions… — Kat Duff Copy Share Image
Healing blessings come in many ways, each suited to our individual needs, as known to Him who loves us best. Sometimes a… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
“I didn't really want to hurt myself. I just wanted my old body back. That, and my old sense of normalcy, which… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
Attitudes to mental health are slowly changing, there's less stigma among healthcare workers and a greater commitment to provide mental health treatment… — Reggie Fils-Aime Copy Share Image
“My pains, sometimes seem like witch hunters: confess, confess, confess. Like a heavy stone on my rib-cage. Confess to what? And, of… — Richard Smyth Copy Share Image
At your next dinner party, try playing the following game. Challenge everyone around the table to produce a single drug that can… — Lynne McTaggart Copy Share Image
The point of a mental health first aider is to be a champion for good mental health in the workplace, to provide… — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
To leave behind what was in reality a hell, and immediately have this good green earth revealed in more glory than most… — Clifford Whittingham Beers Copy Share Image
When people hear about legal restrictions on marketing and advertising, often the response is: Aren't you just being a food nanny? Isn't… — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image
Calcification is the hardening of body tissues by calcium salts or deposits. Although calcification itself is not considered a disease, it has… — David Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Bending over her bed, I saw the smile I must have seen when gaping up from the crib. Knowing death will come,… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Creative people often feel highs of joy and lows of sorrow that others may never experience, and perhaps could not even handle… — Duncan Long Copy Share Image
Why are entire flocks of industrial birds dying at once? And what about the people eating those birds? Just the other day,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The fields of clinical psychology and psychiatry exist specifically to help the emotionally unstable become more stable and lead happier, healthier lives.… — David J. Lieberman Copy Share Image
“I am leery of suggesting the idea that endings are controllable. No one ever really has control. Physics and biology and accident… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
We should open the conversation of mental health and start discussing it in classrooms, and among each other. Especially in the black… — Jordyn Woods Copy Share Image
We need to ensure that Americans can get treated for mental health just like they can get treated for a broken bone… — Neera Tanden Copy Share Image
“Your body would not get sick if you held no thought of resentment. It is neither good nor bad of itself. If… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering. — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I hear they feed you in Sing Sing,” Evie muttered. “Three squares a day.” “Evangeline,” Will said with a sigh. “Charity begins… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person. — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Someone can be mentally ill, but if they are young and beautiful and their life is going well, people don't notice because… — Mary Harron Copy Share Image
Arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalogue of illnesses goes away and… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
A small minority in Turkey even accuses me of having political ambitions, when in fact I have been struggling with various illnesses… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
The people I know who suffer from mental illness, sometimes they do connect you to what it is to be really human.… — Maya Forbes Copy Share Image
Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going… — Julia Sweeney Copy Share Image
I ignore all the doomsaying nonsense. I'm in a business where the odds of ever earning a living are a zillion to… — Marcia Wallace Copy Share Image
It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know? — Moby Copy Share Image
As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Statistics show that 25% of women are on medication for mental illness. That's bloody scary. It means 75% are running around with… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
