My highest achievement: never shutting my heart down. Even in my darkest moments - through sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 14, lies… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“To the men and women who changed Cheryl Hersha's life, she was a continuation of the research that had first been conducted… — Lynn Hersha Copy Share Image
You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only… — Pete Earley Copy Share Image
Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Pierre Janet, a French professor of psychology who became prominent in the early twentieth century, attempted to fully chronicle late- Victorian hysteria… — Michelle Stacey Copy Share Image
“My life isn't good or bad. It's an incredible series of emotional and mental extremes, with beautiful thunderstorms and stunning sunrises. Some… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well,… — Pete Earley Copy Share Image
We have a dysfunctional dream of the planet, and humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear. The symptoms of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
We've all got people who have experienced mental illness, and my mum was a community nurse for a while. — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share Image
I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know… — Ornette Coleman 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
“Until fairly recently, there has been precious little research on expectant fathers’ emotional and psychological experiences during pregnancy. The very title of… — Armin A. Brott Copy Share Image
“Because now mental health disorders have gone “mainstream”. And for all the good it’s brought people like me who have been given… — Holly Bourne Copy Share Image
“Faking mental illness to get out of a prison sentence, he explained, is exactly the kind of deceitful and manipulative act you’d… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“Szasz opposed any involuntary psychiatric intervention and, along with the Cuckoo’s Nest portrayal, paved the way for the disastrous dismantling of U.S.… — Kurt Andersen 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
“And I know, knew for sure, with an absolute certainty, that this is rock bottom, this what the worst possible thing feels… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
The vast majority of people who have mental illness problems never hurt anybody. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
When I was sectioned for six months, that was one of the worst experiences of my life, not being able to go… — Adam Ant Copy Share Image
People with what we call mental illness can indeed serve well, and people who have no discernible mental illness - and that… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
“That is what madness is, isn't it? All the wheels fly off the bus and things don't make sense any more. Or… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
