We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility… — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
I want the audience to think about how many people are hiding in the shadows with the condition. I want the film… — Paul Dalio Copy Share Image
Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me.… — Mati Unt Copy Share Image
Millions of working, uninsured Americans go to bed every night worrying what will happen to them and their families if a major… — Tim Ryan 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
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
The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy. — Neil Cavuto Copy Share Image
Like countless first-year medical students, immersed in the symptoms of one disease after another, I am alert to the tingles and pangs,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
....love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other. Desire is an enemy to contentment; desire… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
At the back of my mind there is always a fear the depression could return but I do all the right things.… — Melanie Chisholm Copy Share Image
A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I never imagined while going through this horrifying illness that I would write a book or that it could ever be a… — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Sickness is a benign rehearsal for death. With luck, some other understudy will go on in your stead before your final bow… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Police ought to protect communities as well as individuals.... Just as physicians now recognize the importance of fostering health rather than simply… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
There is a very close connection between being a doctor and a politician. The doctor tries to prevent illness, then tries to… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified. — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness that some of… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
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