“Being sick successfully is not included in society’s panoply of worthy goals.” — Kaimana Wolff Copy Share Image
Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Convalescence is a sort of grown-up rebirth, enabling us to see life with a fresh eye. — Margaret Prescott Montague Copy Share Image
Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome. — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Mental health is a growing problem that touches every corner of the country. — Neera Tanden Copy Share Image
There are no sick people in North Oxford. They are either dead or alive. It's sometimes difficult to tell the difference, that's… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Disability has become a form of permanent welfare for a lot of folks. It's not that hard to prove a mental illness… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
I had my job, which I loved to do, which I was really good at. I was at the top of my… — Mardy Fish Copy Share Image
The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“We have a mental health system that is dominated by political and hidden forces that keep us stagnated and unable to see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
“The years of stillness, with a life of illness taught me how to fly. Ironic really, they clipped my wings to try… — Nikki rowe Copy Share Image
I think that when you're in your twenties you think about your future, when you're in your thirties you're raising kids and… — Lorna Luft Copy Share Image
I began wondering, can one really write a biography of an illness? But I found myself thinking of cancer as this character… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I find life itself provides ample and sufficient tests of my valor and mettle: illness; betrayal; fruitless searches for love; working for… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“Like most doctors, the fanciest ones, he seemed offensively healthy, as if he kept the real secret of vitality to himself. He… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds of thousands of… — Karen Duffy Copy Share Image
“One of the important things to be aware of with supplements is that too much of certain supplements can induce symptoms of… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Psychiatry is all biological and all social. There is no mental function without brain and social context. To ask how much of… — Leon Eisenberg Copy Share Image
I have come to realize that an early symptom of approaching mental illness is the belief that one's work is terribly important.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Even if these researchers do see the need to address the problem immediately, though they have obligations and legitimate interests elsewhere, including… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“I lead a double life. I'm John Wayne Gacy. I present myself in potentially awkward social situations as a laughing, colorful clown… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
People who have life-challenging experiences who choose to remain invested in a consistent catastrophic interpretation are not the ones I meet. I… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The food industry is spending almost $2 billion a year marketing directly to children and teens. We know that those ads lead… — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image
“Even an ancient monster needs a name. To name an illness is to describe a certain condition of suffering—a literary act before… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
What I want is to talk about how someone raised Muslim struggles with the same stuff that everyone else theoretically could. Obviously,… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
And all that weirdness isn't just going on outside. It's in you too, right now, growing in the dark like magic mushrooms.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
