Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just another form of love. — Charles Manson Copy Share Image
It's a bit like walking down a long, dark corridor never knowing when the light will go on. — Neil Lennon 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
I usually keep my sadness pent up inside where it can fester quietly as a mental illness. — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood. — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
“Somehow this disorder hooks into all kinds of fears and insecurities in many clinicians.” — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“Many so-called disorders of the mind are simply disorders of thought.” — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you. — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
“Always remember, if you have been diagnosed with PTSD, it is not a sign of weakness; rather, it is proof of your… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.' — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
A very tiny percentage of people with mental illness are also violent. We know this. The constant linking of the two together… — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
As no one knew much about my mental illness, a lot of people had the attitude that I had the capability to… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when you want to help a broken person, your attempts only remind them of their missing pieces.” — Gaia B. Amman Copy Share Image
Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that's part… — Adam Duritz Copy Share Image
“A second of intense pain is the most profound thing you can live through. And another, and another, and another, and then… — Stacy Pershall 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
“Like many self-help books, The Deepest Blue is full of horrifyingly simplistic language and some admittedly good advice. Somehow the women in… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
We simply want gun legislation in this country that allows law-abiding citizens to still own guns or prevents people with a history… — David Hogg Copy Share Image
“I read and read and read with an intensity I’d never really known before. I mean, I’d always considered myself to be… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I could feel myself begin to recede, to tip and lose balance, slide toward the deeper darkness that had crept in from… — Bryan Mealer Copy Share Image
“Someone said once that they'd never heard of a crime they couldn't imagine committing, and I realized then that if I had… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“The women in that ward were simple, ordinary refugee women. They came from villages or very small towns. Even before becoming refugees,… — Cheryl Benard Copy Share Image
“You just try to get through the day. The small stuff—waiting on a bus, eating, having a simple conversation—is too much to… — Scott Gordon Copy Share Image
“Bipolar robs you of that which is you. It can take from you the very core of your being and replace it… — Alyssa Reyans Copy Share Image
“Some people, who never engaged in any research about DID, claim that there is no connection between child abuse and DID. Then… — Patrick Suraci 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
“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
“Smiles are a funny thing and laughter is hilarious. I smile sometimes when I am delirious.” — Casey Renee Kiser Copy Share Image
“You can live to be old or young, but you'll always have moments when you lose your head.” — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Thus the incidence of mental illness correlates closely to income in the US and the UK,” — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“A child's death isn't always necessary for a mother to grieve.” — Bebe Moore Campbell Copy Share Image
“Facebook is to mental health, what fossil fuel is to climate health.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Mental health is not the absence of struggle, but the presence of strength in managing it.” — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
You've got everything except one thing: madness! A man needs a little madness, or else... — Anthony Quinn Copy Share Image
