Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
The most miraculous moments of my life were not when my daughter and son were born, but when the second or third… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
I was very much a mess, as a person. I'd come from a very turbulent teenage life, with parents who had broken… — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
Mental health is an issue ailing everyone - it is so omnipresent in society, we must work towards making it better. — Ananya Birla Copy Share Image
The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Call someone 'a schizophrenic' or 'a borderline' [and it] lulls us into a false sense that those words tell us who the… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill,… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
It never occurred to them that God may have provided the world with a vast array of very brainy medical types for… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
We simply want gun legislation in this country that allows law-abiding citizens to still own guns or prevents people with a history… — David Hogg Copy Share Image
We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Not every person wants the prettiest, smartest, talented or spiritually uplifting person to build a life with. Sometimes we just want that… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that's part… — Adam Duritz Copy Share Image
Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I was raised in the desert and always appreciated the way its landscape gives you a chance to see what's coming. In… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Yoga answers a lot of physical problems such as back pain, stress issues, and any kind of joint problems or illnesses. Even… — Rodney Yee Copy Share Image
“no disease suffered by a live man can be known, for every living person has his own peculiarities and always has his… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Illness is often a sign that there are needs you are not taking care of. Sometimes your body gets sick so that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I’d felt this before, when my granddad was in the hospital before he died. We all camped out in the waiting room,… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
For years now, I've been talking about the rise of the extreme right in the U.S. Since 9/11, white nationalists have killed… — Christian Picciolini Copy Share Image
“Pulling through is what people do around here. There is a kind of bravery in their lives that isn’t bravery at all.… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Grigorenko was deprived of his rank, his pension and his Party membership and confined for fifteen months, eight of them in psychushka… — George Bailey Copy Share Image
Mental illness is real, and I got them. I don't know if it's the multiple concussions or the lifestyle choices. — Scott Hall Copy Share Image
But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is… — Philip O Ceallaigh Copy Share Image
“Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
We have to get the word out that mental illnesses can be diagnosed and treated, and almost everyone suffering from mental illness… — Rosalynn Carter Copy Share Image
To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My character in 'Running With Scissors' is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
“She is not well, she has had a nervous complaint on her for several weeks.' 'I am sorry for that. At her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
The people of this country desperately need to engage in an open and honest debate about mental health. — David Satcher Copy Share Image
We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health. — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I know a lot about systemic lupus erythematosus because I have it, too. I was diagnosed through the NHS when I first… — Katherine Ryan Copy Share Image
Thank God for acupuncture. It's been around for 2000 years. It's not going anyplace and people use it all of the time… — Tim Daly Copy Share Image
“victim noun \ˈvik-təm\ 1. The moment you tell everyone you have a mental disorder, in order to excuse your behavior.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
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