“In the spring of 2009, I was the 217th person ever to be diagnosed with anti-NMDA-receptor autoimmune encephalitis. Just a year later,… — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
In the same way that we want to expand mental health service for people with mental illness, we also need to make… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
Love often leads to healing, while fear and isolation breed illness. And our biggest fear is abandonment. — Candace Pert Copy Share Image
What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We know that mental illness is not something that happens to other people. It touches us all. Why then is mental illness… — Tipper Gore Copy Share Image
You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television… — John Green Copy Share Image
Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
We're used to comeback stories in the world of sports, but the Gail Devers story is remarkable. This is a comeback from… — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
“Mental Illnesses aren't bad – if you overcome them, you are much stronger than before – you bloom from Wounds from which… — Sino Melo Copy Share Image
“Sometimes with a flutter of agitated worry that felt like a beetle was trapped inside my ribs. p. 90” — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Disability has become a form of permanent welfare for a lot of folks. It's not that hard to prove a mental illness… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
The challenges I have faced—among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother—are not uncommon, but neither have… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I can't just expect people to know what to say. I have to make them see me as more than my illness. — Claire Wineland 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
They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
So long as men denounce each other as mentally sick (homosexual, addicted, insane, and so forth) so that the madman can always… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Depression is an illness. It is not a ticket to genius. It is not an interesting personality quirk. It is horrible and… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“If you take one thing from this book let it be this: even the dying are alive. If you're a reader with… — Hannah Hodgson Copy Share Image
The actor playing Lee got really irritated. He tried to escape by turning, running, or twisting and talking or yelling above the… — Pete Earley Copy Share Image
Forty percent of the people who are being treated for mental illness are not addressing the physical body. — Linda Hamilton Copy Share Image
Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not to. We're… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
It is not enough to belong to a religion. You also have to put it into practice. Religion is like medicine. You… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
