“My reflection followed me mercilessly in mirrors, car doors, shop windows. I lived in a world of circus mirrors, the grotesque distortion… — Bethany Pierce Copy Share Image
“Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel says we are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember. Who am… — Mira Bartok Copy Share Image
I think people are interesting enough. People with mental illness, or just real people going through real circumstances in life. — Charlie Heaton Copy Share Image
“Self-stigma refers to the state in which a person with mental illness has come to internalize the negative attitudes about mental illness… — Patrick W. Corrigan Copy Share Image
I think love is one that can definitely make you go crazy, and it's almost like love can induce mental illness in… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the… — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
There should be no more shame in acknowledging (mental illness) than in acknowledging a battle with high blood pressure or the sudden… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
In the same way that we want to expand mental health service for people with mental illness, we also need to make… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
“I wish bad brain stuff was an actual guy I could punch in the face. PTSD, panic attacks, anxiety, flashbacks, hallucinations, anything… — RoAnna Sylver Copy Share Image
How crazy craziness makes everyone, how irrationally afraid. The madness hidden in each of us, called to, identified, aroused like a lust.… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
I think Hell exists on Earth. It's a psychological state, or it can be a physical state. People who have severe mental… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
“I ended up sitting right next to Sexy Patty. The placement wasn’t on purpose. (I needed the hands of God, not a… — Harold Phifer Copy Share Image
“Hey, Mom, I'm a married woman now. I want to have ten babies and live here forever and ever." How weird is… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“You can forgive yourself," Daniel had insisted. "I don't think I can," she'd replied. He continued to hold her. "I know everything… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Some view mental illness as a purely spiritual issue and deny the need for medication or other forms of treatment. Others view… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
“The worst part about anxiety attacks, is that you’re aware it’s irrational and sometimes unexplainable, but knowing that gives no aid what… — Ami Desu Copy Share Image
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
“His body had become a companion which seemed always about to leave him: it had its own pains which moved him to… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Having a mental illness is like riding a really fast merry-go-round that never stops. There's no escape. You're stuck. But once in… — Cassia Leo Copy Share Image
“Okay, so when is the mother ship coming to pick us up?” I ask worriedly. “The what?” Reed asks with confusion clouding… — Amy A. Bartol Copy Share Image
“Did I imagine the castle, the dungeon, the ritual orgies and violations? Did Lucy, Billy, Samuel, Eliza, Shirley and Kato make it… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Sadly, psychiatric training still includes far too little on the very serious psychiatric sequelae of childhood trauma, especially CSA [child sexual abuse].… — Joan Coleman Copy Share Image
“What sticks with me now is that this man said he needed to get to a hospital. He probably needed to reach… — Susan Nielsen Copy Share Image
“We must understand that those who experience abuse as children, and particularly those who experience incest, almost invariably suffer from a profound… — Cameron West Copy Share Image
I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself. — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad,… — Frank Bruno Copy Share Image
I like my psychiatrist she's kind, caring and compassionate but what woman wouldn't be for over a 100 dollars an hour? — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“My insides contract- bad. "who are you?" I ask right out loud. And he says what I've been afraid of since I… — Bonnie Shimko Copy Share Image
I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place. — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
“if half the cells inside of you are not you, doesn't that challenge the whole notion of me as a singular pronoun,… — John Green Copy Share Image
The most evil and insidious thing about mental illness is that it isolates us and makes us feel so different that we… — Shannon Purser Copy Share Image
I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
People accuse me of glamorizing mental illness. Looking back sometimes, that's true. But I don't feel guilty. — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
I have an illness. I have a mental illness. I've accepted that now. Before, I used to beat myself up all the… — Paul Merson Copy Share Image
I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything. — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“Prideful fool. It hurt his feelings that he couldn’t make my crazy go away. You know how men are. Always trying to… — Ken Wheaton Copy Share Image
It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is… — Carson Kressley Copy Share Image
I don't know why I feel so crazy...I feel like I'm going through a stargate. Maybe it's the diet pills. Maybe it's… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
“Crisis is what suppressed pain looks like; it always comes to the surface. It shakes you into reflection and healing.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
![“I wish bad brain stuff was an actual guy I could punch in the face. PTSD, panic attacks, anxiety, flashbacks, hallucinations, anything that gives you hell, could just send'em to me, I'd fight them all. [...] Stuff's a lot harder to fight when they're stuck in your own head." "Yeah... didn't stop…” quote by RoAnna Sylver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/587/roanna-sylver-32616_anxiety_i-wish-bad-brain-stuff-was-an-actual-guy_2354939.jpg)
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