I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic… — Chris Toumazou Copy Share Image
Lets try to come to a place of compassion about mental illness, in all its forms, and help each other find healing. — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
So much progress has been made with topics like mental illness and drug abuse and sexual identity. — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
You can't blame the person for creating that illness for themselves, because it was a creation. If you could find out how… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Enemy number one was now the disease. It had a presence as solid as that of a person - I think all… — A.P Copy Share Image
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I always feel like a bit of an outsider myself, but as a working class lad, the system was always against me.… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
“Psychiatric illnesses were classified into two major groups—organic illnesses and functional illnesses—based on presumed differences in their origin. That classification, which dated… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
To be on the safe and humane side, let every relative and friend ... remember the golden rule, which has never been… — Clifford Whittingham Beers Copy Share Image
“I was inspired to write (Life Continues) to tell people dealing with MS or any other illness that if opening your eyes,… — Carmen Ambrosio Copy Share Image
Single people slip out of the dating market for many social, economic, psychological, and ideological reasons including marriage, illness, bankruptcy, job promotion,… — Linda Sunshine Copy Share Image
When we bear witness, when we become the situation - homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death - the right action arises by itself.… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We need employers to have an open mind about people with mental illness, and be willing to employ people, with the right… — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
Americans are blessed with a can-do spirit - we don't give up, even in the face of a daunting challenge like a… — Alex Azar Copy Share Image
“In the United States, people with depression, bipolar, and schizophrenia are losing twelve to twenty years in life expectancy compared to people… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender,… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image
In fact, people with mental illness are more likely to be the victims of violence rather than anything else. So it's important… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Depressions are very cyclical, they happen once every five years. When I was on TV, yes I was effervescent, you can't fake… — Ruby Wax Copy Share Image
The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity. — John Astin Copy Share Image
The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely on to… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
I know people who have had near-death experiences or who have experienced terminal illness and come through the other side. — Chris Sullivan Copy Share Image
This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Depression is something that has always figured in my life but now I'm dealing with it. I wish I'd done this years… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I continued blogging, but between illness and deadlines, did not manage to blog nearly as much as last year. I'm hoping to… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
I'm not one to complain about illness. I suppose I have a bit of a stiff upper lip. I just tend to… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
If evil is empathy erosion, and empathy erosion is a form of illness, then evil turns out to be nothing more than… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
It's absolutely crucial that we look at mental health not just through the prism of health but in a cross-cutting way. — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
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