“Mental illness is no different than a heart condition. In the same way a faulty valve can cause harm to the body… — Heidi Cullinan Copy Share Image
... now I was safe, now I was really crazy, and nobody could take me out of there. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“As a child I had been taken to see Dr Bradshaw on countless occasions; it was in his surgery that Billy had… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
A lot of people I've known for years won't chat with me because they think I'm crazy seriously it's just because I… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity. — John Astin Copy Share Image
There's no shame in speaking about mental illness. It's a very common problem in today's society, no matter if you're playing sports… — Robin Soderling Copy Share Image
Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
“The ancient Greeks considered love a mental illness that led to suicide, homicide, betrayal, war, all sorts of fun.” — Marion G. Harmon Copy Share Image
“Healing begins when we stop hiding pain and start honoring it with compassion and care.” — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
We cannot allow those with mental illness or record of hate or violence access guns and terrorize this country. — Wayne Messam Copy Share Image
“Facebook is to mental health, what fossil fuel is to climate health.” — Abhijit Naskar 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 an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died? — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
The disease concept of homosexuality as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small town, and mental illness wasn't something anyone talked about. — Rachel Hollis Copy Share Image
We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility… — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
“The presuming social view that mental health is not as serious as the media says it is, blocks progress. This too is… — Tamara Hill, MS 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
“The shrinks call it Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. I call it hell. The demons are waiting in each corner, ready to drag me… — James Coyne Copy Share Image
“The drug I take is called schizophrenia, among other labels, which I desperately want to put away. I want to put the… — Jonathan Harnisch 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
