... I went through a very lethargic period ... I was just sort of getting through every night and every day. — Patty Duke Copy Share Image
I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that. — Peter Shilton Copy Share Image
I understood that menstruation - the indication that you're a real woman - stopped if you grew weak from illness — Aya Kito Copy Share Image
The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
The famous herbalist Samuel Thompson used two herbs mainly, cayenne & lobelia. And with those two herbs, it is estimated he helped… — Richard M. Schulze Copy Share Image
The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that - rather than just think… — Robin Gibb Copy Share Image
If we are extremists, then we are not ashamed of it, for the conditions that our people suffer are extreme, and extreme… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Most psychiatrists assume that mental illnesses such as depression are caused by chemical imbalances in the brain, which can be treated by… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Much has been said about the meanings we make of illness, but what about the meanings we make out of cure? Cure… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The average household might prepare for root canal, traffic accident, unemployment or illness, but how the household will meet, manage and even… — John Longenecker Copy Share Image
...it seemed appropriate that I should develop some kind of illness. This is a good idea when you are at a loose… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
“Life is not meant to be a montage of catastrophes. It’s also not a giant prison, and neither are these bizarre, meaty… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
Calisto, a companion of Ignatius, and who on recovering from a severe illness had heard of the imprisonment of Ignatius, hastened from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around under your hood with a giant foam "We're #1" finger. — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating. — Vanessa Bayer Copy Share Image
A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know… — Jonathan Davis Copy Share Image
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
“Most people take health at face value. Quite often people understand that health is the most valuable possession only after they become… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
You can only explain America's gun violence problem through guns, because mental illness doesn't automatically lead to violence, and it doesn't lead… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing. — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that… — Frederick Salomon Perls Copy Share Image
Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Pumped Up Kicks' when I began to read about the growing trend in teenage mental illness. I wanted to understand… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our… — Mira Bartok Copy Share Image
No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself. — James B. Herrick Copy Share Image
Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice. — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on suffering.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Interestingly, schizophrenics can tickle themselves because of a problem with their timing that does not allow their motor actions and resulting sensations… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this… — Nancy Astor Copy Share Image
I think we need to make access to mental health services a priority in the obesity strategy, too. — Layla Moran Copy Share Image
Mental health resources are under huge pressure and there are a lot of people who are not necessarily getting the support they… — Zoe Ball Copy Share Image
