The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness. — John Green Copy Share Image
It's been taboo for so long to admit you had a mental health problem. — Rosalynn Carter Copy Share Image
What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation. — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
“Dear Whoever-that-just-found-out-that-they-have-a-terminal-illness, don't let that put you down. Technically, we are all dying.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Control is a big issue when you're sick. It's the first thing you lose - other losses come later. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
A naturopath once told me you should never take antibiotics except if you have pneumonia, a kidney infection or some other serious… — Pamela Sue Martin Copy Share Image
Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
I said to my doctor, 'You gotta testme, there's something wrong with me that I would be behaving this way.' — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
Mental illness was a family secret. This patient had four children grow up in foster homes, and they never knew her. It… — Sean Moran Copy Share Image
There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and… — Solomon Ibn Gabirol Copy Share Image
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“the testing of the believer is like medicine for him. It cures him from illness. Had the illness remained it would destroy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once, in a three-day taping that included several sadists, the material was so overwhelming that both the film crew and I got… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Parents, families, and caregivers are a “minority” group in the mental health system. This population is hungry for knowledge, direction, and peace… — Tamara Hill, MS 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
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
One of the patients that really stands out for me was a middle-aged woman who actually had HIV in the early days,… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Every effective drug provokes in the human body a sort of disease of its own, and the stronger the drug, the more… — Samuel Hahnemann Copy Share Image
There is no condition that you cannot modify into something more, any more than there is any painting that you can paint… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
“People with mental illnesses are then made to believe that they are somehow inferior to everyone else around them. They feel shame,… — Carol Franklin Copy Share Image
It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy,… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
Schizophrenia --its nature, etiology, and the kind of therapy to use for it--remains one of the most puzzling of the mental illnesses.… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Liberals tend to understand that a person can be lucky or unlucky in all matters relevant to his success. Conservatives, however, often… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Since I come from a family of mental instability, and I have suffered depression myself, I knew that living in shame is… — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not Number One; He is. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness. — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
“Too many of the mentally ill in our country live under conditions of atrocity. Storytelling” — Ron Powers Copy Share Image
