“We should always strive to understand what makes us feel bad... before we feel bad, if possible. As well as what makes… — Alessandro Baronciani Copy Share Image
As individuals are best off believing they control their behaviour, the judiciary is best off imputing that control - barring powerful extenuating… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow… — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that when people see that a successful person who has suffered and is a survivor of mental illness, and is… — Ananya Birla Copy Share Image
“Life wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t supposed to be. Eternal beauty could not exist if it were not for the face of… — Allie Burke Copy Share Image
“Am I a mindless fool? My life is a fragment, a disconnected dream that has no continuity. I am so tired of… — Ross David Burke Copy Share Image
The most miraculous moments of my life were not when my daughter and son were born, but when the second or third… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
Attorney General Becerra was the leading force behind the lawsuit to protect the Affordable Care Act. Yes, he had the audacity to… — Alex Padilla 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
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
“One other thing—she was always armed. Ossie May talked about her gun even more than she bragged about her cooking. Out of… — Harold Phifer Copy Share Image
Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it.… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
You have to hide what you are and it's really stressful and very bad for your self esteem. Because it's not obvious… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
While there are many experts in the psychoanalysis of individuals, there seems to be little active authority or understanding in the matter… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“Tony faked mental illness. That’s when you have hallucinations and delusions. Mental illness comes and goes. It can get better with medication.… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“Faced with public discontent about the statist agenda, the Condescendi look out the window at the unlovely mob in their "Don't treat… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“Marxism in the Soviet Union had been boiled down to the understanding that people—Soviet citizens—were shaped entirely by their society and the… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“And you know the darkness beyond despair, just as intimately as you know the soaring heights. Because in this and all universes,… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“Ivanov: No, my clever young thing, it's not a question of romance. I say as before God that I will endure everything… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
“I remembered during puberty, through the anorexic mists of intermittent menstrual cycles, that man, my father, lifting Shirley's nightdress over her head… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“People with mental illness are very much like people without mental illness only more so. What we lose with a psychotic episode… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Tell me, just how many lives need to be lost until someone realises the impact that their words can have on another… — Isha Barlas Copy Share Image
But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is… — Philip O Ceallaigh Copy Share Image
Mental illness is real, and I got them. I don't know if it's the multiple concussions or the lifestyle choices. — Scott Hall Copy Share Image
I think the science around mental illness is always evolving. There's always new kinds of thinking. — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
“The only time it's hopeless is when you're dead! Long as you're alive, you can get better - you can make it… — RoAnna Sylver Copy Share Image
“it’s important for people to hear from [those] who have good fulfilling lives and manage chronic mental illness as part of those… — John Green 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
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 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
Mental illness lives all around us every day. I've seen it in other family members, I've seen it in friends, and I've… — Rachel Hollis 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
“Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
“It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element… — Osamu Dazai 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
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