Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
“Paradoxically, it now is much easier to treat many mental disorders than it is to understand them.” — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
People who attend support groups who have been diagnosed with a life-challenging illness live on average twice as long after diagnosis as… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Since I was young my wish has been to die in perfect health - I mean to die with a body that… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
But the fact is that I wouldn't have won even a single Tour de France without the lesson of illness. What it… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Wanting to be on television is a mental illness. Wanting to be president of the United States, wanting to be an actor… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
In order to really give mental health the focus and attention it deserves, we need to bring together and integrate all the… — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
Each story, good and bad, short or long-from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness-they… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
If I were to peruse a survey of label options, as they exist now, they either sound like a time bomb disorder… — Paul Dalio Copy Share Image
Cancer is just a word that creates fear. Forget about that word, and let's just focus on balancing your body. All illnesses… — Anita Moorjani Copy Share Image
A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Promise. Don't misunderstand me-you are quite vexing." He touches his tender jaw. "And you hit like a man. But you didn't cause… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I think, these days when someone talks about their struggles of mental health, we are almost surprised by it. It comes as… — Emma Corrin Copy Share Image
When I look at the patients that I've cared for with mental illness, I know that many of them took years to… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
“Mental illness do not designate a set path to failure. It’s simply a chemical or hormone imbalance that causes individuals to accept… — Okisha Jackson Copy Share Image
You are no more at fault for having depression than if you had asthma, diabetes, heart disease, or any other illness. — Harold H. Bloomfield Copy Share Image
What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist? — Peter D. Kramer Copy Share Image
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Schizophrenia is when the total personalities of your past lives or the memories of invading Spirits enter your body.” — Raymond Holder Copy Share Image
I used to practice clinical medicine. Now I practice political medicine, because it's the mother of all illnesses. — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality. — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
It was only after the earthquake that the health minister said mental health should be a priority and that the issue was… — Reggie Fils-Aime Copy Share Image
I think there's such a stigma around mental health, particularly as fighters, we are seen as invincible. — Megan Anderson Copy Share Image
If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid. — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not… — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
As I kept having episodes of depression, I realized that it was not a one-off: that I had, well, not a disease,… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Should I ever again sink into illness, I'm sure I'll remember Eldric. I'll remember he cared for me. I'll remember that someone… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words. A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane. — Kristin Scott Thomas Copy Share Image
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