When something enters your life that is so big and so non-negotiable as catastrophic illness, you either go in denial for a… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
Mental health is an area where people are embarrassed. They don't want to talk about it because somehow they feel they're a… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
there does seem to me something sad in life. It is hard to say what it is. I don't mean the sorrow… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“There should be an age limit for patients, he thinks as he takes off his shoes. You just have to say to… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
...to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert,… — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Nothing seems real anymore. Even the flames from the fire seem to beckon to me, drawing me into some great past life… — Ian Curtis Copy Share Image
I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
It all made sense - terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had… — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
“Cancer gave me an understanding of the point of all this. To survive. Most of our lives it is easy but for… — Shaun Hick Copy Share Image
Bingeing is such an emotionally frenetic activity that no other concerns can exist in the same space. It is a hell that… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was… — Caroline Lawrence 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
If people can talk about having breast cancer, why can't people who have mental illness talk about mental illness? Until we're able… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
OSHA was created to regulate jobs that cause injury or illness to workers. Increasingly, though, OSHA sees its purpose as improving the… — Eugene Scalia Copy Share Image
The nature of food processing had changed substantially in America. Much of it owed to corresponding changes in food packaging and the… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“She is no longer a solitary being. She is a million different parts, each reborn, granted the miracle she prayed for in… — Victoria Kahler Copy Share Image
“People try to treat their illnesses without first trying to understand the cause of them. Behind every effect there is a cause.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It's my belief that, since the end of the Second World War, psychology has moved too far away from its original roots,… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
In a time of infirmity, the illness IS one's work. Taking care of all the disciplines that our health problems require IS… — Marva Dawn Copy Share Image
It had been drilled into us that when an audience pays to see a performance, it is entitled to the best performance… — Lillian Gish Copy Share Image
The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“it seemed that the pain of their physical illness at times was less than the misery of their poverty ridden existence, the… — Madhu Vajpayee Copy Share Image
Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them… — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
“God whispered, "You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
Health is not simply the absence of illness. Real health is the will to overcome every form of adversity and use even… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
I think it backfired. It wasn't what I expected, it was difficult. I didn't expect them to throw somany mind games into… — Sophie Anderton Copy Share Image
“Saving You The darkness takes him over, the sickness pulls him in; his eyes—a blown out candle, I wish to go with… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The death of Fidel Castro, of course, is not as significant when you first look at it, because Raul Castro, his brother,… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
