We separate problems with the brain into neurological and psychiatric, and it's because it's stigmatised still. Mental illness is still stigmatised. Imagine… — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
“The reasons for Emma's illness and for her decision to allow life in, rather than die, are intertwined and involve the beginnings… — Carol Lee Copy Share Image
Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me.… — Mati Unt Copy Share Image
“I did my graduate research paper on the biochemistry of schizophrenia . Intellectually , I believe that most serious mental illness has… — Talitha Day Fair Copy Share Image
Most psychiatrists assume that mental illnesses such as depression are caused by chemical imbalances in the brain, which can be treated by… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“In today’s mesmerizing digital landscape, our attention is madly sought after. Algorithms are ingeniously designed to keep us hooked like addicts by… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
While there are many experts in the psychoanalysis of individuals, there seems to be little active authority or understanding in the matter… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“Tony faked mental illness. That’s when you have hallucinations and delusions. Mental illness comes and goes. It can get better with medication.… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society produces the antidote against such deterioration. When pathological… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“As a therapist, I have many avenues in which to learn about DID, but I hear exactly the opposite from clients and… — Deborah Bray Haddock Copy Share Image
“He wouldn't tell me that I always have two options— You can choose how you feel or you you can let your… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“Once I had found the courage to tell Rebecca about the children in my head, it wasn't so hard in the coming… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“A chorus of voices exhorts kids to study science. No one stops to ask whether it is inhumane to force adolescents to… — Theodore J. Kaczynski Copy Share Image
“He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was capable of returning love with a childlike purity. If love… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“No death, no suffering. No funeral homes, abortion clinics, or psychiatric wards. No rape, missing children, or drug rehabilitation centers. No bigotry,… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“The tattoo artist inflicts pain and I take it. With each breath I count to one again. Each inhale, each exhale, time… — Stacy Pershall Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill and we're all haunted by something, and some people manage to… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
“It’s so weird, to know you’re crazy and not be able to do anything about it, you know? It’s not like you… — John Green Copy Share Image
Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
People love to make comedians out to be miserable, dark, twisted people. And I just - I think a lot of people… — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it.… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
You have to hide what you are and it's really stressful and very bad for your self esteem. Because it's not obvious… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
“One other thing—she was always armed. Ossie May talked about her gun even more than she bragged about her cooking. Out of… — Harold Phifer Copy Share Image
“One of the important things to be aware of with supplements is that too much of certain supplements can induce symptoms of… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I have come to realize that an early symptom of approaching mental illness is the belief that one's work is terribly important.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Religion is not delusion, for most part it's therapeutic, but the notion that you're doomed if you don't pick a particular religion,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn't know a soul. It terrified me to… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I'm a happy-go-lucky manic-depressive. It does get very deep and dark for me, and it gets scary at times when I feel… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
“When I was a little girl everyone made fun of me and calling me awful names.Also saying i'm ugly and now i'm… — genevieve cortese Copy Share Image
As well as being blind, Ma turned out to have the same mental illness that her mother had had. Between 1986 and… — Liz Murray Copy Share Image
Having to parent your mother or father is a challenge that way too many teens have to deal with. Teens whose parents… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
At the back of my mind there is always a fear the depression could return but I do all the right things.… — Melanie Chisholm Copy Share Image
“Slowly, inch by inch, I felt myself recovering. After a few weeks, the darkness began to recede; my appetite for life returned.… — Tyler Hamilton Copy Share Image
When mental sickness increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes.… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Every pore of you is crying and you don't even understand why or what. I actually kind of died and got born… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
“As Lynn began getting psychologically better, she took me to a variety of sites. She taught me how to read trail markers.… — Lynn Hersha Copy Share Image
There's a book called 'You're Not a Stranger Here' by Adam Haslett - short stories, a lot of them are about mental… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
“The word “depressed” is spoken phonetically as “deep rest”. We can view depression not as a mental illness, but on a deeper… — Jeff Foster Copy Share Image
“The words on the pages within this book are solely dedicated to victims of bullying, those that ever have or still do… — Kathryn Perez Copy Share Image
Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
