It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still… — Glenn Close 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
“Like many self-help books, The Deepest Blue is full of horrifyingly simplistic language and some admittedly good advice. Somehow the women in… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability… — Hanif Kureishi 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
“But pain's like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There's no way to stop it. Sometimes you have… — Katie Kacvinsky 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
A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“The drone told him one in ten of the people he passed on the street would be treated for mental illness at… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“Faced with public discontent about the statist agenda, the Condescendi look out the window at the unlovely mob in their "Don't treat… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“Most people put too much emphasis and value on their own family, but when a family is promoting anti-survival ideals, it is… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“Finally, some of the genes identified in certain variants of schizophrenia or bipolar disease actually augment certain abilities. If the most pathological… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“There's no demonstrable link between hoarding and early material deprivation. But there is a link between hoarding and EMOTIONAL deprivation. Many hoarders… — Jessie Sholl Copy Share Image
“Anxiety isn't an attack that explodes out of me; it's not a volcano that lies dormant until it's triggered by an earth-shattering… — Jen Wilde; queens of geek Copy Share Image
We have a serious problem with incarceration in this country. It's destroying families, it's destroying communities and we're the most incarcerated country… — John Legend Copy Share Image
“Eventually my mother suffered a complete breakdown, and the court orders were finally signed. They took her to the State Mental Hospital… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I'd love for mental illness to be seen in the way that other horrible illnesses are. When people get cancer, very few… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I could feel myself begin to recede, to tip and lose balance, slide toward the deeper darkness that had crept in from… — Bryan Mealer Copy Share Image
Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
The more and more I spoke about it, the more I found out how many people deal with it, the more I… — Mardy Fish Copy Share Image
True, God hates Alzheimer's, spinal cord injury, mental illness, autism, and the rest (these conditions are all symptoms of the Fall). Yet… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Mental illness, unfortunately, is an invisible disease: it's not seen or heard. For whatever reason, because of that, society has decided that… — Mauro Ranallo Copy Share Image
“To the extent that self-expression does broadcast and reinforce a person's character, it clarifies a link between art, eccentricity, and mental illness.… — Alice Weaver Flaherty Copy Share Image
My mother struggled immensely with mental illness, and so did I. She grew up bipolar, but it was never diagnosed nor recognized.… — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
We have a dysfunctional dream of the planet, and humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear. The symptoms of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Seeing movies about mental illness, a lot of falseness has leapt out at me over the years... So I just focused on… — Maya Forbes Copy Share Image
We rarely know what motivates somebody in their work, and it's usually a particular moment in their life. For me, that moment… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
“The local police was her brother Martin, the sheriff. Her father was the Assistant Chief of Police. The last thing she was… — Elizabeth Garden Copy Share Image
“Not only is the actual word "hysteria" gendered — it once referred to an exclusively female disease, a mental illness thought to… — Sady Doyle 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
His impression was that he had been imprisoned in a shelter deep down in the underworld of his personality, listening and biding… — Christer Kihlman Copy Share Image
“There’s a link between creativity and mental illness,” Lucas continues. “Creative people feel more, think more. They’re more sensitive. Most people try… — Kyla Stone Copy Share Image
The sooner you 'settle' the sooner you'll be allowed home" was the ruling logic; and "if you can't adapt yourself to living… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
The Republican Party cannot be anti-trade, anti-immigrant, not out there practicing the politics of people, you know, the issues surrounding drug addiction… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
“It was the face of a human being who’d been constructed exclusively of wounds. Not time or history or ambition, nothing but… — Ryu Murakami 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
