... now I was safe, now I was really crazy, and nobody could take me out of there. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood. — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“Thus the incidence of mental illness correlates closely to income in the US and the UK,” — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
That no one dies of migraine seems, to someone deep into an attack, an ambiguous blessing. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
People need to pay attention to their bodies and go get a checkup. If you do that, you have a chance to… — Tony Dorsett Copy Share Image
It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know? — Moby Copy Share Image
As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Statistics show that 25% of women are on medication for mental illness. That's bloody scary. It means 75% are running around with… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia. — Alistair Sinclair Copy Share Image
Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Mental disorders don't really live 'out there' waiting to be explained. They are constructs we have made up - and often not… — Allen Frances Copy Share Image
“I went out into the corridor. I asked a nurse if she knew where the people with arthritis went. She said lots… — David Almond Copy Share Image
Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death,… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I've spent a great deal of time over the past decade as a caregiver for various family members. It gives me a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as… — Mildred Blaxter Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill and we're all haunted by something, and some people manage to… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Why are entire flocks of industrial birds dying at once? And what about the people eating those birds? Just the other day,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The fields of clinical psychology and psychiatry exist specifically to help the emotionally unstable become more stable and lead happier, healthier lives.… — David J. Lieberman Copy Share Image
“I am leery of suggesting the idea that endings are controllable. No one ever really has control. Physics and biology and accident… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“Suffering should not define you as a woman! And just because you’re a man it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t affect you!… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
The Sisters vanished entirely then, and Aunt Harriet was standing over Tessa, her face flushed with fever as it had been during… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Now, it is sometimes said that medical care is too important to be left to the market, and that it is immoral… — Llewellyn Rockwell 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
... I feel tired to death, paralyzed by this mysteriously wasted life's stubborn concentration on hopelessness and dissolution. It occurs to me… — Christer Kihlman Copy Share Image
“Depression is an illness, and no fault of the person who suffers from it” — Julie Schumacher Copy Share Image
Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer. — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
“Mental illness is not in the business of making sense of itself.” — Roni Askey-Doran Copy Share Image
My brother-in-law had to give up his last job because of illness. His boss became sick of him. — Henny Youngman Copy Share Image
I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up. — Kirstie Alley Copy Share Image
