“After my first few tastes I was pretty much hooked. I'd have dry spells, months without any or only piddling amounts of… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We separate problems with the brain into neurological and psychiatric, and it's because it's stigmatised still. Mental illness is still stigmatised. Imagine… — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness. — Madchen Amick 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
My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well. — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice. — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“The Japanese psychiatrist Kimura Bin, director of the Psychiatric Hos- pital of Kyoto and translator of Binswanger, sought to deepen Heidegger’s anal-… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
“The depressed person is mired in the past; the manic person is obsessed with the future. Both destroy the present in the… — Nassir Ghaemi Copy Share Image
I yearned to get better; I told myself I was getting better. In fact, the depression was still there, like a powerful… — Tracy Thompson Copy Share Image
“The maladies of the spirit alone, in abstracto, that is, error and sin, can be called diseases of the mind only per… — Ernst Von Feuchtersleben 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
“We have been focusing on the role that psychiatry and its medications may be playing in this epidemic, and the evidence is… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
Some view mental illness as a purely spiritual issue and deny the need for medication or other forms of treatment. Others view… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn't know a soul. It terrified me to… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“If the whole world seems like it's against you, it helps to know that you've still got home. A safe place. It… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“More than GM Foods I am afraid of GMM People. Genetically and Mentally Mutated People. The Entire Ecosystem Mutates.” — Vineet Raj Kapoor 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
“Every one wants to be a Genius. But only the brave choose to go mad to get there...” — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“When you speak of my insanity, please let it be with the beauty only art knows. Let it bleed till it becomes… — P.H. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Am I cured?” “No. You’re someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Mental illness is a real thing. It has real material consequences for people who suffer from it and at the time even… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image
“Hey, Mom, I'm a married woman now. I want to have ten babies and live here forever and ever." How weird is… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one. — Marsha M. Linehan Copy Share Image
