There's such a stigma around mental illness, and this idea that you're going to come off as disturbed or weak somehow by… — Shannon Purser 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
Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception.… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Another of the difficulties of having DID is the denial. DID is a disorder of denial. It has to be because if… — Eve N. Adams Copy Share Image
There are people with much bigger profiles than mine who are talking about mental illness. I am going to try to use… — Mauro Ranallo Copy Share Image
I was hoping that I could say stuff about mental illness that maybe people didn't know. You know, speak up for bipolar… — Eric Millegan Copy Share Image
Nurse' couldn't be construed as laughing at the characters. You can't do something about mental illness without being genuine about the characters.… — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share Image
I live in Venice Beach so I see this all day, every day. Some people just ignore people with mental illness, pretend… — Lori Petty Copy Share Image
“Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a German philosopher. His writing included critiques of religion, morality, contemporary… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Pierre Janet, a French professor of psychology who became prominent in the early twentieth century, attempted to fully chronicle late- Victorian hysteria… — Michelle Stacey Copy Share Image
... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“What people don't understand about depression is how much it hurts. It's like your brain is convinced that it's dying and produces… — Tyler Hamilton Copy Share Image
“when other characters mistake Sam and Dean for a couple, this is not just a crude attempt at homophobic humor. It also… — Galen A. Foresman Copy Share Image
“In exchange for institutionalization, people with mental illness today have been provided with splendid autonomy. But this particular bland of autonomy comes… — Clem Martini Copy Share Image
“The real problem here is that we’re all dying. All of us. Every day the cells weaken and the fibres stretch and… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“What's going on? I'm in the back car of a roller coaster at the top of the climb, with the front rows… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“Debasement? Yes, I write about debasement. I write about a lot of nasty things: obsession, violence, sex, religion, politics, death, and mental… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fighting for kids has been my lifelong mission. Right out of high school, I went to work at a camp that served… — Laura Kelly Copy Share Image
“Yr had a region called the Fear-bog. Lactamaeon had taken her there once to see the monsters and corpses of her nightmares… — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
There is nothing worse that you can do to a human being in America today than give them a mental illness kind… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
“I found it hard to write the bits where the things that were at first surprising or even shocking became normal incrementally… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“I take no pleasure in, and set no store by, the suggestion that Professor Wessely effectively hijacked the WHO logo to give… — Frederick R.P. Curzon Copy Share Image
One day, I made a remark that I might work with people with mental illness, and somebody in the press heard it… — Rosalynn Carter Copy Share Image
“It wasn't that she was sad—sadness had very little to do with it, really, considering that most of the time, she felt… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
So long as men denounce each other as mentally sick (homosexual, addicted, insane, and so forth) so that the madman can always… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“Do you ever feel as if everything surrounding you is in slow motion, moving through tar? There you are - and there's… — Kyle Labe Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
One [of the two ideas for PROOF] was to write about two sisters who are quarreling over the legacy of something left… — David Auburn Copy Share Image
The most dangerous thing, when you have a serious mental illness, is convincing yourself that you don't have it. And you see… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
I think of emotional well-being as a resource within each of us that allows us to do more and to perform better.… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its… — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
I think the stigma surrounding mental illness and also the stigma surrounding self-esteem issues or insecurities or just even feeling different is… — Brittany Snow Copy Share Image
No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“A lot of people believe that mental illness does not affect our children within the school system. But the truth is that… — Tamara Hill, MS Copy Share Image
Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon,… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My wife, like many women, actually LIKES wrapping things. If she gives you a gift that requires batteries, she wraps the batteries… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
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