The first thing that happens to someone with a mental illness, in the throes of it, is that they lose all their… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
Here are the ingredients of a tragedy: untreated mental illness, a society where life is cheap and crime is glamorized, and a… — Blase J. Cupich 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
Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
When you cry out in pain from a broken wrist, no one questions it. You just go to the hospital and take… — Torrey DeVitto Copy Share Image
There are people who are profoundly mentally ill. But we now have a very weird perspective on mental illness and what it… — K. Flay Copy Share Image
When my mind plays tricks on me I can deal. But when my mind plays tricks on my mind I can not… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“When had I stopped being a person with Paranoid Schizophrenia, and become a Paranoid Schizophrenic; defined by my illness?” — Michaela Haze Copy Share Image
I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal… — Jennifer Gilmore 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
It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“I take no pleasure in, and set no store by, the suggestion that Professor Wessely effectively hijacked the WHO logo to give… — Frederick R.P. Curzon Copy Share Image
The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
“I found it hard to write the bits where the things that were at first surprising or even shocking became normal incrementally… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
One day, I made a remark that I might work with people with mental illness, and somebody in the press heard it… — Rosalynn Carter Copy Share Image
There is nothing worse that you can do to a human being in America today than give them a mental illness kind… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“There needs to be a nationwide awareness programme for all NHS staff, to educate them about dissociative disorders. Diagnoses need to be… — carol broad Copy Share Image
“The current ruling ontology denies any possibility of a social causation of mental illness. The chemico-biologization of mental illness is of course… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“Why do I take a blade and slash my arms? Why do I drink myself into a stupor? Why do I swallow… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“You cannot make yourself have a flashback, nor will you have one unless you are emotionally ready to remember something. Once remembered,… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
“Superstition is thriving. Pedantry is thriving. Sectarianism is thriving. Belief is dying out. To most of your people the jinn are paranoid… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“A world without prejudice, stigma, and discrimination against those who have or are thought to have mental illness would be a better… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind-… — Tim Dorsey Copy Share Image
While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of… — Kate Cann Copy Share Image
Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them. — Lysette Anthony Copy Share Image
“I repeat one of my mantras. 'This is not happening. This is not real. This did not happen to you. That was… — Emily Andrews Copy Share Image
“The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she… — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“You have to characterize your coworkers and avoid the ones that degrade the workplace harmony.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well,… — Pete Earley Copy Share Image
Mental illness is so hard to define. It's not like an umbrella diagnosis that everyone can fall under, and even one person… — Stephanie Labbe Copy Share Image
[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental… — Richard Dawkins 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
And people get so weird about mental illness, you follow the rules! You don't up a heart patient on a roller coaster,… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
“Wandering" What’s the point of wandering? to find a better place? a home? The loneliness will always capture me in its claws… — Annette Dabrowska Copy Share Image
Mental health awareness means ending the stigma of mental illness by sharing the complexities of our stories and fighting to make care… — Michelle Wu Copy Share Image
I should be writing songs about happiness all day long, but a lot of my songs get inspired from that place of… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
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