“We should always strive to understand what makes us feel bad... before we feel bad, if possible. As well as what makes… — Alessandro Baronciani 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
“It’s a little-known secret, and it should probably stay that way: attempting suicide usually jump-starts your brain chemistry. There must be something… — Terri Cheney Copy Share Image
“Librarians are trained to be polite, patient, and helpful, no matter who stands across the reference desk.The most important thing is that… — Robert Dawson 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
“Embrace risk-taking: Challenge yourself to take calculated risks, whether it’s trying a new approach at work or taking on a new hobby… — J. Edwards Holt Copy Share Image
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
“Every lineament of the girl's wasted body is a testament to her inner turmoil. Willow can only imagine what kind of pain… — Julia Hoban Copy Share Image
“Incredible shame is associated with mental illness. People will confide the most intimate details of their love life before they'll mention a… — Candace Pert Copy Share Image
Just to let you know I don't post my books and things on the net in hopes of being rich. The reason… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in… — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
“There is stability in self-destruction, in prolonging sadness as a means of escaping abstractions like happiness. Rock bottom is a surprisingly comfortable… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“Speaker says psychology has commandeered "everything hard" and partitioned it from Scripture with the assumption that its causes are biological” — Ed Welch Copy Share Image
“For three days and three nights, Phædrus stares at the wall of the bedroom, his thoughts moving neither forward nor backward, staying… — Robert Pirsig Copy Share Image
I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a… — Kay Redfield Jamison 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
“My psychiatrist said I had charisma so at least I'm certified” — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“But pain's like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There's no way to stop it. Sometimes you have… — Katie Kacvinsky 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
The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“I loved the idea of a subversive world where mental illness was defined as just another version of normal, and education was… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon,… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image