Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
That's where depression hits you most - your home life. It doesn't affect your work. I can't do this zany, wacky, funny… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“Be dedicated to change the way in which people see mental illness, at all levels of society. If not for yourself, advocate… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
“More than GM Foods I am afraid of GMM People. Genetically and Mentally Mutated People. The Entire Ecosystem Mutates.” — Vineet Raj Kapoor 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
My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“Mental illness" is among the most stigmatized of categories.' People are ashamed of being mentally ill. They fear disclosing their condition to… — Elyn R. Saks Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
We are a conspiracy of hope and we are pressing back against the strong tide of oppression which for centuries has been… — Patricia Deegan Copy Share Image
“I’ve never had anorexia, but I know it well. I see it on the street, in the gaunt and sunken face, the… — Harriet Brown Copy Share Image
Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
The madhouse is in a lot of places, not just a hospital, not just a palace, but also a pattern woven from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yes, I talk about eating disorders and you know, excessive dieting and excessive exercising can be a sign of a mental illness...… — Sophie Gregoire Trudeau Copy Share Image
He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Medical research has revealed that in about one-tenth of the population, the liver processes alcohol differently, releasing a chemical messenger that creates… — Kaylie Jones Copy Share Image
“The point is, the brain talks to itself, and by talking to itself changes its perceptions. To make a new version of… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“To begin consciously searching into the world of mental illness is to see it snap into focus before your eyes. It is… — Ron Powers Copy Share Image
“Cousin Mary hoped her journey through periods of dark and light was like that of a Swiss train toiling up the mountainside,… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“GREED is truly the most terrible challenge of our times, and capitalism is its tool, its means to power and more greed.… — William Donelson Copy Share Image
“Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to:… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“If there is something intangible about mental illness generally, depression is all the harder to define because it tends to creep in… — Daphne Merkine Copy Share Image
“As a child I had been taken to see Dr Bradshaw on countless occasions; it was in his surgery that Billy had… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is,… — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
We shall therefore compare the concept of homosexuality as heresy, prevalent in the days of the witch-hunts, with the concept of homosexuality… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“Have you ever suddenly realized it's someone else's mood swing and you're just along for the ride?” — Alex Bosworth Copy Share Image
You can have a disordered relationship with food, but to have an eating disorder is indicative of a mental illness, which I… — Troian Bellisario Copy Share Image
“There’s such a stigma attached to mental illness that people are often reluctant to talk about it, or admit that they, or… — Lori Wilde Copy Share Image
“Anxious, depressed, psychotic, lunatic, bipolar, manic - you name it, I attract it. Perhaps you’ve heard of me? In some circles I… — J.L. Black Copy Share Image
We know how to treat depression, we know how to treat mental illness, and we have not had the political will in… — Rosalynn Carter Copy Share Image
Racism is a strange mental illness where you look at somebody and say, 'I hate you because of the colour of your… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
“Those with dissociative disorders face a big enough battle living as multiples and dealing with past trauma. Like everyone else, they deserve… — Carol Broad Copy Share Image
“Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.” — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
Everywhere I looked life seemed to be full of problems and they were just going to go on and on. It was… — Paul Gascoigne Copy Share Image
Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
“Psychological and spiritual components are as important or more important for you . Thoughts and feelings can change neurochemistry , just as… — Talitha Day Fair Copy Share Image
When people meet others with mental illness it's hard to accept to understand and not judge its even harder for the person… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
We cannot allow those with mental illness or record of hate or violence access guns and terrorize this country. — Wayne Messam Copy Share Image
