The difficult thing with mental illness is that there's no one to blame. You can't blame a person who's mentally ill, because… — Donna Lynne Champlin Copy Share Image
It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
“Your mother is going to be fine," the nurse says. I breathe more easily but the word settles into my stomach. Fine.… — Sara Polsky Copy Share Image
“There are such things as delusions, but not every unlikely vision that the mentally ill have is imaginary.” — Shepherd Hoodwin Copy Share Image
“The shrinks call it Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. I call it hell. The demons are waiting in each corner, ready to drag me… — James Coyne Copy Share Image
Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice. — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility… — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
“A second of intense pain is the most profound thing you can live through. And another, and another, and another, and then… — Stacy Pershall Copy Share Image
We simply want gun legislation in this country that allows law-abiding citizens to still own guns or prevents people with a history… — David Hogg Copy Share Image
“I read and read and read with an intensity I’d never really known before. I mean, I’d always considered myself to be… — Matt Haig 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
To leave behind what was in reality a hell, and immediately have this good green earth revealed in more glory than most… — Clifford Whittingham Beers Copy Share Image
“Sometime in high school it dawned on me that perhaps I was a little different...I realized music wasn't swirling in the minds… — Robin Spielberg Copy Share Image
There's no shame in speaking about mental illness. It's a very common problem in today's society, no matter if you're playing sports… — Robin Soderling Copy Share Image
I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“Cheryl was aided in her search by the Internet. Each time she remembered a name that seemed to be important in her… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“First agriculture, and then industry, changed two fundamental things about the human experience. The accumulation of personal property allowed people to make… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
“False humility is a form of psychosis which was imprinted on most of us since birth. It is a mental illness because… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
“It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop… — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
“Viscosity occurs on a cellular level. And so does velocity.In contrast to viscosity's cellular coma, velocity endows every platelet and muscle fiber… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“Now his work-mates pitied him, although they tried not to show it, and it was generally arranged that he was given jobs… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Try describing a few of the most wildly successful pop albums of the twentieth century without mentioning the artist and title. A… — Dan Fox Copy Share Image
“Half of the time, the Holy Ghost tries to warn us about certain people that come into our life. The other half… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery,… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
You can only explain America's gun violence problem through guns, because mental illness doesn't automatically lead to violence, and it doesn't lead… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Pumped Up Kicks' when I began to read about the growing trend in teenage mental illness. I wanted to understand… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
“People with developmental disabilities and mental illness are only handicapped by how much we underestimate them.” — Donna Kirk Copy Share Image
If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that. — Peter Shilton Copy Share Image
I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
... I went through a very lethargic period ... I was just sort of getting through every night and every day. — Patty Duke Copy Share Image
“Thin, I think, that fabric between realities. Maybe minds aren't lost. Maybe they just slip through and find a different place to… — C.J. Tudor Copy Share Image
I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems. — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
“It is not a forgotten place, but it is a place for forgetting - the crimes committed by its patients settling into… — John Burley Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
