“I finally understood what could drive kids to show up with guns and shoot up their schools.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Except you cannot outrun insanity, anymore than you can outrun your own shadow.” — Alyssa Reyans Copy Share Image
Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.” — Kevin Alan Lee Copy Share Image
I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
And people get so weird about mental illness, you follow the rules! You don't up a heart patient on a roller coaster,… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
“Embrace risk-taking: Challenge yourself to take calculated risks, whether it’s trying a new approach at work or taking on a new hobby… — J. Edwards Holt Copy Share Image
[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It was an oddly satisfying idea to feel bereft as I left my mother this time. We only feel bereft when we’re… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“Brenda, do you know God loves you? He really does. To Him, you're perfect, absolutely perfect. You always have been.” — Nikki Rosen Copy Share Image
“Wandering" What’s the point of wandering? to find a better place? a home? The loneliness will always capture me in its claws… — Annette Dabrowska Copy Share Image
“A lot of people believe that mental illness does not affect our children within the school system. But the truth is that… — Tamara Hill, MS Copy Share Image
The most dangerous thing, when you have a serious mental illness, is convincing yourself that you don't have it. And you see… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
I think of emotional well-being as a resource within each of us that allows us to do more and to perform better.… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its… — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
So long as men denounce each other as mentally sick (homosexual, addicted, insane, and so forth) so that the madman can always… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“Do you ever feel as if everything surrounding you is in slow motion, moving through tar? There you are - and there's… — Kyle Labe Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
“The disorders that psychology associates with the dissonance between what parents say to children and what children know to be reality -… — Hugh Brody Copy Share Image
“In the absence of any therapy, the mentally ill of the 20th century were chained, shackled, straitjacketed, kept nude, electrocuted, half-frozen, parboiled,… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“What sticks with me now is that this man said he needed to get to a hospital. He probably needed to reach… — Susan Nielsen Copy Share Image
“We must understand that those who experience abuse as children, and particularly those who experience incest, almost invariably suffer from a profound… — Cameron West Copy Share Image
“It's not that there are no challenges to becoming a vegetarian or vegan, but in the media, including authors of popular books… — Sunaura Taylor Copy Share Image
“Sadly, psychiatric training still includes far too little on the very serious psychiatric sequelae of childhood trauma, especially CSA [child sexual abuse].… — Joan Coleman Copy Share Image
“His body had become a companion which seemed always about to leave him: it had its own pains which moved him to… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Having a mental illness is like riding a really fast merry-go-round that never stops. There's no escape. You're stuck. But once in… — Cassia Leo Copy Share Image
Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Thus the incidence of mental illness correlates closely to income in the US and the UK,” — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Many so-called disorders of the mind are simply disorders of thought.” — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you. — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
... now I was safe, now I was really crazy, and nobody could take me out of there. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image