I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I think we need to update the existing laws to create uniformity across the states so that all people with mental illness… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
“Then the weeks rolled by in a sinister psych ward haze filled with white-coated orderlies and rocking whack-job patients torn straight from… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“But what if I did tell people exactly what was going on? What if I valued my own peace of mind more… — Melissa Broder Copy Share Image
“Nathaniel is not a mentally ill musician, as I have been referring to him, but a musician with mental illness. It's a… — Steve Lopez Copy Share Image
I always had a dissociative disorder. But I healed from it over the course of 14 years of big-time therapy. But, you… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
Depression makes you seek lonely places, and that is what I started doing during the second semester of my first year in… — Samantha Abeel Copy Share Image
“Food has become a cause of disease rather than a guardian of health in the modern world. Once regarded as the central… — Daniel P. Reid Copy Share Image
“I've always told people that for each person there is a sentence--a series of words--which has the power to destroy him. When… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“You survived by seizing every tiny drop of love you could find anywhere, and milking it, relishing it, for all it was… — Rachel Reiland Copy Share Image
“The implication that the change in nomenclature from “Multiple Personality Disorder” to “Dissociative Identity Disorder” means the condition has been repudiated and… — Richard P. Kluft Copy Share Image
Number one, we have to talk about mental illnesses. Number two, you can actually address things from a purer and honest direct… — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The vision I see in the mirror is me, who I am, supposedly, but that vision does not express the way my… — Victoria Sawyer Copy Share Image
“Against all expectations, the symptoms of Van Gogh’s mental illness are conspicuous by their almost complete absence from his letters. Much as… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Are you interested in medical marijuana but have no idea what it is? In recent years, there is a growing cry for… — Kurt Copy Share Image
“Spring and Fall” …cannot be said to be about depression - but of course, to someone who is depressed, everything is about… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“Our brokenness is our greatest strength. I've been broken all my life, for my life is one on the spectrum with OCD… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Psychosis can happen out of the blue, to anyone, and no one knows why. Not even the best doctors on the planet.… — Jeannine Garsee Copy Share Image
,what saved my life was my husband. He nursed me back to health, and he continues to do that to this day.… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
“We got through it. Haven made excuses for me to friends, and made an appointment with a terrific doctor, who put me… — Tyler Hamilton Copy Share Image
Every time the DSM prepares for a new edition, there are countless groups lobbying to get their particular mental illness recognized by… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
There is so much to be celebrated about mental illness. I do believe that there is something to be said about the… — Mauro Ranallo Copy Share Image
“Thanksgiving is no time for amateur hour in the kitchen, but we were subjected to this Gong Show on a yearly basis.… — Harold Phifer Copy Share Image
My story is how to have a life while dealing with mental illness, and I've had a life. I've been blessed. It's… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
Mental illness doesn't need to be hidden or glorified. It should be normalized to where people feel comfortable sharing with their families… — Ariel Winter Copy Share Image
Having been hit by drug addiction, knowing how many are hit by it and what a big problem it is in our… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
“With a damp palm, I turned the knob and cracked open the door. She was asleep in her freshly made bed. I… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“A significant number of people diagnosed with mental illness have psychic abilities not yet under control. They may have true mental illness… — Shepherd Hoodwin Copy Share Image
People with what we call mental illness can indeed serve well, and people who have no discernible mental illness - and that… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
Eating was my only way of controlling my life, or so I thought. When you are addicted or suffering from a mental… — Sophie Gregoire Trudeau Copy Share Image
Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it… — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
“Mental illness turns people inwards. That's what I reckon. It keeps up forever trapped by the pain of our own minds, in… — Nathan Filer Copy Share Image
Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Wanting to be on television is a mental illness. Wanting to be president of the United States, wanting to be an actor… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
If I were to peruse a survey of label options, as they exist now, they either sound like a time bomb disorder… — Paul Dalio Copy Share Image
When I talk to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and other patient support groups, I take questions at the end.… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Uncommon anxiety came to us in common hours when other people were doing mundane things like taking out the trash or checking… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
