“I’m tired of dealing with crazies. When did it become my job to manage your mental illness?” — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
In the 1830s, Dorothea Dix revolutionized the care of people with mental illness by taking them out of jails and caring for… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
Too many people will die needlessly if we go back to letting people buy junk insurance or insurance that doesn't help people… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
The sooner you 'settle' the sooner you'll be allowed home" was the ruling logic; and "if you can't adapt yourself to living… — Janet Frame 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
“The Bad-Moon Girls appear on days when Dad doesn't know what he is thinking, or even if he is thinking. Those days… — Joanna Campbell Copy Share Image
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
You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Thanksgiving is no time for amateur hour in the kitchen, but we were subjected to this Gong Show on a yearly basis.… — Harold Phifer Copy Share Image
Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast. I'm not talking about onset or duration. I mean the quality of the… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“Fritz’s theory was that modern society has gravely disrupted the social bonds that have always characterized the human experience, and that disasters… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
My thoughts often range between manic to marvelous depends on the day... — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain… — Diane Wood Middlebrook Copy Share Image
“Mental illness is not in the business of making sense of itself.” — Roni Askey-Doran Copy Share Image
Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
When I talk to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and other patient support groups, I take questions at the end.… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“The physical shape of Mollies paralyses and contortions fit the pattern of late-nineteenth-century hysteria as well — in particular the phases of… — Michelle Stacey Copy Share Image
Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that's part… — Adam Duritz Copy Share Image
The more and more I spoke about it, the more I found out how many people deal with it, the more I… — Mardy Fish Copy Share Image
Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
