Mania starts off fun, not sleeping for days, keeping company with your brain, which has become a wonderful computer, showing 24 TV… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I've had a mental illness for nearly half my life, and I can no longer imagine myself without it. It seems less… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“What will life be like without her? I am dreadfully sad she is leaving. What if she just disappears; gets tired of… — Mira Bartok Copy Share Image
Any other illness, any other disease that we're faced with, there's sympathy and understanding. We get help for those. With mental illness,… — Chris Wood Copy Share Image
“Though life may bring us grief and loss, there is always hope in the night. No matter how deep our sorrows may… — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
Which is worse, overload or underload? Luckily, I never had to choose. One or Pass on to where? Back into my cells… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry poison behind… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous thing of all, and something he wanted to warn me about above all else, the one thing that had… — Mikael Niemi Copy Share Image
The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own… — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
“Every few minutes or so I would remember the look from the man who had wanted fifty cents, and I'd look at… — Catherine Lacey 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
Above all, Alzheimer wanted the medical world to recognize that mental illnesses have an undeniable material component. There was an obvious political… — Margaret M. Lock Copy Share Image
“As Barron began to make sense of what he observed, he came to identify a key consistency among creative people. Namely, these… — Scott Barry Kaufman Copy Share Image
“Dr. Talbon was struck by another very important thing. It all hung together. The stories Cheryl told — even though it was… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“Any time I let it, the weight of living creeps in and starts to drag her down. It would be too easy… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. This is a mental illness. It is like looking through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars.… — Joo Won Copy Share Image
Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning,… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“When I read, I read desperately because I was desperate — desperate to exchange my own anxious thoughts for the calming thoughts… — Sean Norris Copy Share Image
I think we need to talk about mental illness a lot more. People complain about tax dollars and say we don't have… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
Countries with the best-resourced medical services have the best outcomes for physical illness (it is better to have a heart attack in… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
“Except then I wonder what it's like to feel normal because if you take away the things I've felt all my life--the… — Kelley York Copy Share Image
“When the Jo personality first told him of the diagnosis, he called MPD "clinical bullshit." Then, seeing Jo's stricken look, he softened… — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
I'm getting less good at faking it. People in my family are noticing and asking what's wrong. My friends give me invitations… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
“Illness is always an interaction between [mind and body]. It can begin in the mind and affect the body, or it can… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
I think that, generally, when it's a white male shooting, then it's mental illness is the first thing that they utilize after… — Daayiee Abdullah Copy Share Image
Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of… — John A. Stormer Copy Share Image
At the end of each therapy session, I waited for an evaluation, a clinical judgment, some kind of pronouncement on "my condition."… — Ken Dornstein Copy Share Image
“Because now mental health disorders have gone “mainstream”. And for all the good it’s brought people like me who have been given… — Holly Bourne Copy Share Image
The very term ['mental disease'] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more… — E. Fuller Torrey Copy Share Image
For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable… — Frances Farmer Copy Share Image
“With thousands of years of history frozen in time, it's no wonder that many southerners like me romanticize the north as a… — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
“The Kinsey staff asked questions of children, learning about sexuality in the family. And other psychologists, psychiatrists and paediatricians, including Benjamin Spock,… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“I resolved to come right to the point. "Hello," I said as coldly as possible, "we've got to talk." "Yes, Bob," he… — Robert B. Oxnam Copy Share Image
“Campaign to destigmatize so-called "mental illness" often take a wrong turning here. They try to demonstrate how suffers of some condition have… — Darian Leader Copy Share Image
“Really, the only people you should be comparing yourself to would be people who make you feel better by comparison. For instance,… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
“As I grew into womanhood my confusion at the world became more apparent. I was taking comfort in behaviours that were familiar,… — Jane Hersey Copy Share Image
“The largest and most rigorous study that is currently available in this area is the third one commissioned by the British Home… — David Lisak Copy Share Image
“The doctor’s words made me understand what happened to me was a dark, evil, and shameful secret, and by association I too… — Alyssa Reyans Copy Share Image
“It is hard to bring paedophile rings to justice. Thankfully it does happen. Perhaps the most horrific recent case came before the… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
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