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
“There is stability in self-destruction, in prolonging sadness as a means of escaping abstractions like happiness. Rock bottom is a surprisingly comfortable… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“For generations, parents have shaped 'fine' but deeply restless human beings. We may know 'how to act' but we're losing sight of… — Rebecca Eanes Copy Share Image
I enjoy the fact that, as a gay man, there's relatively little pressure on me to act like a grown-up, but also… — Vestal McIntyre 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
This is a common misconception about antidepressants: many people believe they're simply 'happy pills' that will wipe a person's emotional slate clean.… — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
“While the first few explosions might be written off as coincidence, or even bad luck, somewhere around the tenth destroyed vehicle a… — J.A. Konrath Copy Share Image
I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
When I was hospitalized in 1992 with severe clinical depression I thought I was the only one. I didn't know of one… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
“Am I cured?” “No. You’re someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“You aren’t falling apart. You’re well beyond that. You’re just rattling along now. Elven dolls doing what little you can to gather… — Darrell Drake Copy Share Image
He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“There were other strange signals and signs. Another day, suddenly felt an almost overwhelming urge to travel to Balitmore. I wanted to… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“We who were not so pathologically far out on the spectrum of self-involvement, we dwellers of the visible spectrum who could imagine… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“The maladies of the spirit alone, in abstracto, that is, error and sin, can be called diseases of the mind only per… — Ernst Von Feuchtersleben Copy Share Image
“With psychiatric medications, you solve one problem for a period of time, but the next thing you know you end up with… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
Attorney General Becerra was the leading force behind the lawsuit to protect the Affordable Care Act. Yes, he had the audacity to… — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
We can and should complain about certain horrors of the modern world, but when it comes to the treatment of mental illness,… — Rob Delaney Copy Share Image
What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There was a time when I was way too reliant upon other people's opinions and perspective of me. And I guess over… — Moby Copy Share Image
I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
“Cause I'd rather stay here With all the madmen Than perish with the sadmen roaming free And I'd rather play here With… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“When you speak of my insanity, please let it be with the beauty only art knows. Let it bleed till it becomes… — P.H. Wilson Copy Share Image
“One of the main problems for anyone working in health care, social work or addiction treatment is the struggle to hold on… — Linde Zingaro Copy Share Image
“Parents, families, and caregivers are a “minority” group in the mental health system. This population is hungry for knowledge, direction, and peace… — Tamara Hill, MS Copy Share Image
“DID is about survival! As more people begin to appreciate this concept, individuals with DID will start to feel less as though… — Deborah Bray Haddock Copy Share Image
I was the most important person of the world, and people like the Pope would be just like enemies, who would try… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image
I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
It all made sense - terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had… — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
“A personality disorder is not the foreign presence of demonic possession or a cancerous cluster of cells spreading among the internal organs.… — Merri Lisa Johnson Copy Share Image
“In my community, mental health isn't taken seriously enough. Therapy is replaced by prayer. Tears are a sign of weakness. When you… — Frida R Copy Share Image
Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
