Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are. — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was a psycho woman. It felt like something in me that I had no control over. — Katie Price Copy Share Image
“The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!” — Patrick W. Corrigan Copy Share Image
“Love, like madness, can only fill the models that society makes available.” — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
I think love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“Going mad is the beginning of a process, it's not meant to be the end result.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself.… — Clara Hughes Copy Share Image
It is a technique ideally suited to prevent physical and mental illness and to protect the body generally, developing an inevitable sense… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You get such a kick and then it's all over. That's good ground for uncertainty and depression. I usually burst into tears. — Kylie Minogue Copy Share Image
“That’s what mountains do, they taunt you, lure you to the freedom of the wilderness, and it is fucking exhilarating.” — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
“My reflection followed me mercilessly in mirrors, car doors, shop windows. I lived in a world of circus mirrors, the grotesque distortion… — Bethany Pierce Copy Share Image
“In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.” — Kevin Alan Lee Copy Share Image
Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My wife, like many women, actually LIKES wrapping things. If she gives you a gift that requires batteries, she wraps the batteries… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I think we need to update the existing laws to create uniformity across the states so that all people with mental illness… — Kimberly Guilfoyle 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
I think the stigma surrounding mental illness and also the stigma surrounding self-esteem issues or insecurities or just even feeling different is… — Brittany Snow Copy Share Image
No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Number one, we have to talk about mental illnesses. Number two, you can actually address things from a purer and honest direct… — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The drone told him one in ten of the people he passed on the street would be treated for mental illness at… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“The programme into which Cheryl was inducted combined all the different ways the intelligence community had learned could cause intense psychological change… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view,… — Clare Boylan Copy Share Image
“The distinction between diseases of "brain" and "mind," between "neurological" problems and "psychological" or "psychiatric" ones, is an unfortunate cultural inheritance that… — António R. Damásio Copy Share Image
“One of the paradoxical and transformative aspects of implicit traumatic memory is that once it is accessed in a resourced way (through… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“The disorders that psychology associates with the dissonance between what parents say to children and what children know to be reality -… — Hugh Brody Copy Share Image
“In the absence of any therapy, the mentally ill of the 20th century were chained, shackled, straitjacketed, kept nude, electrocuted, half-frozen, parboiled,… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
Well, I thought, last night I paid my dues. I faced death. Now I can stay. — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions. — Anna Castillo Copy Share Image
“I face my trauma because I believe in breaking cycles, not repeating them.” — The Thoughtful Beast Copy Share Image
“I finally understood what could drive kids to show up with guns and shoot up their schools.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
