I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness. — Gail Porter Copy Share Image
One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people. — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
“My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.” — Emery Lord Copy Share Image
Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Most sane people think that no insane person can reason logically. But this is not so. — Clifford Whittingham Beers Copy Share Image
When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“victim noun \ˈvik-təm\ 1. The moment you tell everyone you have a mental disorder, in order to excuse your behavior.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Mental illness was a family secret. This patient had four children grow up in foster homes, and they never knew her. It… — Sean Moran Copy Share Image
“The ancient Greeks considered love a mental illness that led to suicide, homicide, betrayal, war, all sorts of fun.” — Marion G. Harmon Copy Share Image
I said to my doctor, 'You gotta testme, there's something wrong with me that I would be behaving this way.' — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
“Thoughts are only thoughts.They are not you, you belong to yourself even when your thoughts don't.” — John Green Copy Share Image
Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
“If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well.” — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“When you speak of my insanity, please let it be with the beauty only art knows. Let it bleed till it becomes… — P.H. Wilson Copy Share Image
There was a time when I was way too reliant upon other people's opinions and perspective of me. And I guess over… — Moby Copy Share Image
What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
We can and should complain about certain horrors of the modern world, but when it comes to the treatment of mental illness,… — Rob Delaney Copy Share Image
“You aren’t falling apart. You’re well beyond that. You’re just rattling along now. Elven dolls doing what little you can to gather… — Darrell Drake Copy Share Image
“Anxiety isn't an attack that explodes out of me; it's not a volcano that lies dormant until it's triggered by an earth-shattering… — Jen Wilde; queens of geek Copy Share Image
We have a serious problem with incarceration in this country. It's destroying families, it's destroying communities and we're the most incarcerated country… — John Legend Copy Share Image
“Eventually my mother suffered a complete breakdown, and the court orders were finally signed. They took her to the State Mental Hospital… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“While the first few explosions might be written off as coincidence, or even bad luck, somewhere around the tenth destroyed vehicle a… — J.A. Konrath Copy Share Image
“Most people put too much emphasis and value on their own family, but when a family is promoting anti-survival ideals, it is… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“Finally, some of the genes identified in certain variants of schizophrenia or bipolar disease actually augment certain abilities. If the most pathological… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“There's no demonstrable link between hoarding and early material deprivation. But there is a link between hoarding and EMOTIONAL deprivation. Many hoarders… — Jessie Sholl Copy Share Image
“The truth will set you free, they say, but believe me, nothing will set you free.” — Ava Farmehri Copy Share Image
You've got everything except one thing: madness! A man needs a little madness, or else... — Anthony Quinn Copy Share Image
“Mental health is not the absence of struggle, but the presence of strength in managing it.” — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
“Facebook is to mental health, what fossil fuel is to climate health.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We have to get the word out that mental illnesses can be diagnosed and treated, and almost everyone suffering from mental illness… — Rosalynn Carter Copy Share Image
