Disability has become a form of permanent welfare for a lot of folks. It's not that hard to prove a mental illness… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
I was depressed at a very young age - mental illness runs in my family, especially on the female side. — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
“The amount of sympathy you get from having an illness is paid out like a Ponzi scheme and psychiatric disorders are all… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“I swear that I will never cause trouble for anybody, as long as I live!! So please! Nobody cause any trouble for… — Minoru Furuya Copy Share Image
And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“I hear a siren and, if we weren’t already in a hospital, I would have assumed they were coming for nearly everyone… — Michael F. Stewart Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill and we're all haunted by something, and some people manage to… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
“It’s so weird, to know you’re crazy and not be able to do anything about it, you know? It’s not like you… — John Green Copy Share Image
Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
People love to make comedians out to be miserable, dark, twisted people. And I just - I think a lot of people… — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
We separate problems with the brain into neurological and psychiatric, and it's because it's stigmatised still. Mental illness is still stigmatised. Imagine… — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
“The reasons for Emma's illness and for her decision to allow life in, rather than die, are intertwined and involve the beginnings… — Carol Lee Copy Share Image
Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me.… — Mati Unt Copy Share Image
“Everything in life, except her kids, made her impatient. She had tried to do a million things. She'd wanted to be a… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“My mind feels like a race car on the track, getting faster and faster every time I pause to think or blink… — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
“Mental illness is no different than a heart condition. In the same way a faulty valve can cause harm to the body… — Heidi Cullinan Copy Share Image
I've never had a sustained period of medication for mental illness when I've not been on other drugs as well. It's just… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“We have been focusing on the role that psychiatry and its medications may be playing in this epidemic, and the evidence is… — Robert Whitaker 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
“At that moment, when I had the TV sound off, I was in a 382 mood; I had just dialed it. So… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“It is safe to assume that, no matter how it appears, the attempt probably did not come out of the blue. Look… — Andrew Slaby Copy Share Image
As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Statistics show that 25% of women are on medication for mental illness. That's bloody scary. It means 75% are running around with… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know? — Moby Copy Share Image
The problem with mental illness, as opposed to physical illness, is that it involves wrong thinking or impaired insight. You're not thinking… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
In India, there is a huge stigma attached to one having a mental illness; this not only makes it worse for the… — Ananya Birla 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
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“...all I could think about was how both sets of parents had needed to make their decision, on whether to medicate their… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
“Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia.” — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
“The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find… — Joanna Cannon Copy Share Image
“There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul.” — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
The people I know who suffer from mental illness, sometimes they do connect you to what it is to be really human.… — Maya Forbes Copy Share Image
I always feel bad laughing at people who act crazy. But sometimes the things they do are so damned funny. I wonder… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
People don't realize how many of the homeless are single moms, and a lot of veterans, and people with mental illness. — Joe Maddon Copy Share Image
