I wrote 'Pumped Up Kicks' when I began to read about the growing trend in teenage mental illness. I wanted to understand… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our… — Mira Bartok Copy Share Image
“Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on suffering.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Interestingly, schizophrenics can tickle themselves because of a problem with their timing that does not allow their motor actions and resulting sensations… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice. — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“A label is a ready tool to dismiss one's humanity, be it wielded by an individual, an organization, a party, or a… — Chris Mars Copy Share Image
I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. This is a mental illness. It is like looking through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars.… — Joo Won Copy Share Image
Psychic health depends on orgastic potency, i.e., upon the degree to which one can surrender to and experience the climax of excitation… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
This illness made it impossible for me to give my best effort to our audience, but now that it's been identified, I'm… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
“I long ago learned that one's illnesses are both pleasanter and more useful if one keeps their exact nature to himself: one's… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry poison behind… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I know that everyone is fighting for every penny of government finance, but we need more money to deal with the mental… — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share Image
No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself. — James B. Herrick Copy Share Image
A diet rich in fruits and vegetables plays a role in reducing the risk of all the major causes of illness and… — Walter Willett Copy Share Image
That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I'm in hell. I'm separate from everyone and everything. I'm John Travolta in The Boy in the Plastic Bubble.” — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility… — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
Mental health resources are under huge pressure and there are a lot of people who are not necessarily getting the support they… — Zoe Ball Copy Share Image
When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this… — Nancy Astor Copy Share Image
I think we need to make access to mental health services a priority in the obesity strategy, too. — Layla Moran Copy Share Image
The difficult thing with mental illness is that there's no one to blame. You can't blame a person who's mentally ill, because… — Donna Lynne Champlin Copy Share Image
Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
the casualties among us include not just those who are dying, or bleeding, or recovering from injury, but also the caretakers around… — Natalie Kusz Copy Share Image
My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness. — Mary Garden Copy Share Image
Mental illness and creativity are - it's a thin line in between the two. I tend to believe that. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“As I sat up I turned my head to the side, but immediately straightened it again when I felt a sharp pain… — Jennifer Starzec Copy Share Image
…there are three prerequisites to going out into the world to walk for pleasure. One must have free time, a place to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
My father, Eric, was bipolar and as he got older, his illness affected the family more and more. My mother was magnificent… — Rick Stein Copy Share Image
A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood… — Lee Haney Copy Share Image
Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is… — Rachel Corrie Copy Share Image
Which is worse, overload or underload? Luckily, I never had to choose. One or Pass on to where? Back into my cells… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“You must take the time to do something that brings you joy. If you are saying to yourself, “I can’t do that… — Beth Ramsay Copy Share Image
But I am living in the midst of the uncertainty and risk, amid things that can and do bring physical destruction, because… — Katie Davis Copy Share Image
