We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious… — Patricia Deegan Copy Share Image
I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of… — Karen Duffy Copy Share Image
The first thing that happens to someone with a mental illness, in the throes of it, is that they lose all their… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
“Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I thank God for this illness and these physical discomforts, because I have the time to converse with the Lord Jesus. — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Life is like a box of chocolates, you fill your body with toxins, And amoxicillin and penicillin to cure your illness. But… — Termanology Copy Share Image
Every pore of you is crying and you don't even understand why or what. I actually kind of died and got born… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
Mother Earth is now stronger than She ever was before. It is almost like taking penicillin. You take it for a few… — Drunvalo Melchizedek Copy Share Image
No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
I live in Venice Beach so I see this all day, every day. Some people just ignore people with mental illness, pretend… — Lori Petty Copy Share Image
There's such a stigma around mental illness, and this idea that you're going to come off as disturbed or weak somehow by… — Shannon Purser Copy Share Image
Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
Sometimes pain and illness are not meant to be removed. You can't second-guess God. Rather than praying for it to go away,… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare is getting flyblown; a paternal government might well forbid writing about him, as they put his monument at Stratford beyond the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I've seen people recover physical abilities, yet never get over emotional trauma after a serious accident. I've seen other people overcome the… — Jim Stovall Copy Share Image
“I made spasmodic efforts to work, assuring myself that once I began working I would forget her. The difficulty was in beginning.… — Alfred Hayes Copy Share Image
For many years now I have listened to the stories of people with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses as their counselor. From… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
“Statistics say that a range of mental disorders affects more than one in four Americans in any given year. That means millions… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't… — Bebe Moore Campbell Copy Share Image
Just look at the list of who the lowest-paid people are. Pediatricians are at the bottom. You would also look at internists.… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Have you ever observed somebody go through a religious conversion? The person seems perfectly reasonable to you and has no particular concern… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom. — Malcolm Gladwell 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
“To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are its victims, are we have no… — William Glasser M.D Copy Share Image
In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no illness or accident should lead to any family's financial ruin. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There are people who are profoundly mentally ill. But we now have a very weird perspective on mental illness and what it… — K. Flay Copy Share Image
Is it not the worst pain to know there is a cure for your child's illness and then not be able to… — Nnedi Okorafor Copy Share Image
My fear is dying badly, through illness or injury. But what a glorious demise it would be to burn up in space. — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Nutritional complements, wisely used, can prevent many age-related illnesses and dramatically reverse your biological age. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
It's not a surprise that the mental health epidemic is affecting so many people because we can't escape this bubble from being… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
“When had I stopped being a person with Paranoid Schizophrenia, and become a Paranoid Schizophrenic; defined by my illness?” — Michaela Haze Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people see the flu as a common cold, but it's not: it's a serious respiratory illness that… — Tia Mowry Copy Share Image
“She sounded angry. That was the way she'd been as long as he'd known her. If she became ill, it irritated her.… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of… — Kate Cann Copy Share Image
Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them. — Lysette Anthony Copy Share Image
