“...I wondered at times whether I would wake up and this would be just a bad dream, a nightmare that I could… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
If we do not allow for a rhythm of rest in our overly busy lives, illness becomes our Sabbath— our pneumonia, our… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
There is so much to be celebrated about mental illness. I do believe that there is something to be said about the… — Mauro Ranallo Copy Share Image
Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
While there are many experts in the psychoanalysis of individuals, there seems to be little active authority or understanding in the matter… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Warned by such evidences of their spiritual illness, believers profit by their humiliations. Robbed of their foolish confidence in the flesh, they… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It's for personal reasons," I say stiffly, which is what my mother had always told me to say about things that had… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
You can't treat an illness with cosmetic surgery, and that's why it would be great if there were qualified therapists in plastic… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
Creative people often feel highs of joy and lows of sorrow that others may never experience, and perhaps could not even handle… — Duncan Long Copy Share Image
The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When you have mental illness you don't have a plaster or a cast or a crutch, that let everyone know that you… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side; it has revealed to us… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Many people with mental illness suffer in silence, afraid to seek help for fear of victimisation. — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience. — Carolyn Wheat 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
To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions. — Anna Castillo Copy Share Image
“This is a diseased world in which it is impossible for anyone to be fully human. One way or another, everyone who… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
