“People with developmental disabilities and mental illness are only handicapped by how much we underestimate them.” — Donna Kirk Copy Share Image
“I wonder if there is anyone who is not depraved. A wearisome thought. I want money. Unless I have it.... In my… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
As governor, I will work to reform the practice of solitary confinement, which studies and medical and psychological associations say causes negative… — Michelle Lujan Grisham Copy Share Image
But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind-… — Tim Dorsey Copy Share Image
They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental… — Naomi Judd Copy Share Image
“Mental health is not the absence of struggle, but the presence of strength in managing it.” — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
“In response to threat and injury, animals, including humans, execute biologically based, non-conscious action patterns that prepare them to meet the threat… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“The Catholic Church created strict guidelines for the rite of exorcism back in 1614—guidelines that have remained largely unchanged in 400 years.… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
“My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.” — Emery Lord Copy Share Image
I'm not a doctor, but I would assume that anything that you're doing that's harming you, and you can't stop doing it,… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to… — Rebecca Wells 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
Certain people are more likely to use drugs because of whatever it is: They've suffered some trauma in their life. They have… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
“Being trauma informed must include respecting and honouring the fact that what is learned from the experience of trauma is a kind… — Linde Zingaro Copy Share Image
The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own… — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
...The ...experts of the FDA have declared Laetrile to be worthless...quackery and fraud...These experts are the professional descendants of experts...confident that mental… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“The sound of her phone shocked her out of the dark world that was currently playing in front of her eyes from… — Allie Burke Copy Share Image
“Marxism in the Soviet Union had been boiled down to the understanding that people—Soviet citizens—were shaped entirely by their society and the… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image