“In our family "whim-wham" is code, a defanged reference to any number of moods and psychological disorders, be they depressive, manic, or… — David Lovelace 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
“What sticks with me now is that this man said he needed to get to a hospital. He probably needed to reach… — Susan Nielsen Copy Share Image
The less control people had over their work, the higher their blood pressure during work hours. Moreover, blood pressure at home was… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
“There is another real cost to linking gun violence with mental illness. Dr. Renee Binder, President of the American Psychiatric Association and… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share Image
“This was a characteroloical prelude, but it wasn’t chemical or somatic. It was the anatomy of melancholy, not the anatomy of his… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The biggest advice I can give loved ones who are supporting someone navigating a newly diagnosed mental illness is patience, patience, and… — Madchen Amick Copy Share Image
Most sane people think that no insane person can reason logically. But this is not so. — Clifford Whittingham Beers Copy Share Image
Finding a calm place inside myself through meditation kind of helped me to get over a lot of mental illness ... it's… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
“Fuck 'em. They don't know what you know.' And it's true. None of these people know what we know.” — Marie Marquardt 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
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
“There’s such a stigma attached to mental illness that people are often reluctant to talk about it, or admit that they, or… — Lori Wilde Copy Share Image
“It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop… — Flora Rheta Schreiber 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
I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
Physically, I'm healthy as a horse, always held up. But in the mental illness department, I got my share. It's just what… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
“You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees bottomless pit in yours.” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“There's this mental illness, right? It's called 'anhedonia.' It means 'without pleasure.' You can look it up, though all you really need… — Vicki Pettersson Copy Share Image
I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When had I stopped being a person with Paranoid Schizophrenia, and become a Paranoid Schizophrenic; defined by my illness?” — Michaela Haze 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
We shall therefore compare the concept of homosexuality as heresy, prevalent in the days of the witch-hunts, with the concept of homosexuality… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
