I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Mental illness and depression are the reason why I no longer have a father. — Caroline Calloway Copy Share Image
There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself.… — Clara Hughes Copy Share Image
... it is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person. — George Howe Colt Copy Share Image
I just felt as though I would never be happy again, and as if I had fallen into a big black hole. — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
Illness, especially chronic illness, can be very isolating. Not only does it limit how and when you can socialise, it causes you… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
“I mention a paradox of psychiatry: mental illness is recognized by the patient's distorted thoughts, but treatment is largely indifferent to their… — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
I don't want people to be afraid of health or illness or mortality, because it's a natural part of life. — Suzy Nakamura Copy Share Image
Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living''… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Physically, I'm healthy as a horse, always held up. But in the mental illness department, I got my share. It's just what… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
Having to parent your mother or father is a challenge that way too many teens have to deal with. Teens whose parents… — Laurie Halse Anderson 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
Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
As well as being blind, Ma turned out to have the same mental illness that her mother had had. Between 1986 and… — Liz Murray Copy Share Image
No statistical proofs exist that prayer reduces illness and mortality, except perhaps through a psychogenic enhancement of the immune system; if it… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
People from the Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles are starting to return home today. A natural gas well leak in the… — Ari Shapiro Copy Share Image
Too many Americans who struggle with mental health illnesses are suffering in silence rather than seeking help, and we need to see… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Scientists have demonstrated that dramatic, positive changes can occur in our lives as a direct result of facing an extreme challenge -… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
Whatever your difficulties - a devastated heart, financial loss, feeling assaulted by the conflicts around you, or a seemingly hopeless illness -… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
“In the museums we used to visit on family vacations when I was a kid, I used to love those rooms which… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“When people create stigmas and make judgments, they do so without having any understanding of the issue; in fact, many of these… — Carol Franklin Copy Share Image
I don't believe anybody has a right to own any kind of a firearm. I believe in order to obtain a permit… — John Silber Copy Share Image
Even more than the depression, it was my anxiety and agitation that became the defining symptoms of my illness. Like epileptic seizures,… — Douglas Bloch Copy Share Image
The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“So about an hour later we are in the taxi shooting along empty country roads towards town. The April light is clear… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
“Mental illness didn’t really change people. It just made them more of who they were going to be anyway. Mental illness was… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
“iGen is on the verge of the most severe mental health crisis for young people in decades. On the surface, though, everything… — Jean M. Twenge Copy Share Image
We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive. — James Dean Bradfield Copy Share Image
Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a… — Heather Armstrong Copy Share Image
It is as imperative to take care of our minds as is our bodies and hence seeking help for mental illness is… — Ananya Birla Copy Share Image
Falling ill is not something that happens to us, it is a choice we make as a result of things happening to… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
I believe that mental health services should be based on the premise that the origins of distress are largely social. — Peter Kinderman Copy Share Image
