I don't know why I feel so crazy...I feel like I'm going through a stargate. Maybe it's the diet pills. Maybe it's… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
The biggest advice I can give loved ones who are supporting someone navigating a newly diagnosed mental illness is patience, patience, and… — Madchen Amick Copy Share Image
We know that mental illness is not something that happens to other people. It touches us all. Why then is mental illness… — Tipper Gore Copy Share Image
“Crisis is what suppressed pain looks like; it always comes to the surface. It shakes you into reflection and healing.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is… — Carson Kressley Copy Share Image
“Prideful fool. It hurt his feelings that he couldn’t make my crazy go away. You know how men are. Always trying to… — Ken Wheaton Copy Share Image
I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything. — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed and open about it than somebody perfect and...you know...… — Ned Vizzini It's kind of a Funny Story 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“A lot of people believe that mental illness does not affect our children within the school system. But the truth is that… — Tamara Hill, MS Copy Share Image
“Billy covered his head with his blanket again. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“Someday, i dream we will medically address mental illness in a way that helps people WITHOUT completely crippling them, creatively or robbing… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
“If falling in love is not love, then what is it other than a temporary and partial collapse of ego boundaries? I… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“You can’t go wrong in choosing anything, and I love people who dodge all the gender-imperative rubbish that society torments us all… — Morrissey Copy Share Image
“At cocktail parties, I played the part of a successful businessman's wife to perfection. I smiled, I made polite chit-chat, and I… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
“…modern man no longer communicates with the madman […] There is no common language: or rather, it no longer exists; the constitution… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“it has to be emphasized that if the pain were readily describable most of the countless sufferers from this ancient affliction would… — William Styron 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
Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time. — Stephanie S. Tolan Copy Share Image
Finding a calm place inside myself through meditation kind of helped me to get over a lot of mental illness ... it's… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
“Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
When I was sectioned for six months, that was one of the worst experiences of my life, not being able to go… — Adam Ant Copy Share Image
The war on drugs is very, very real, and the war on helping people with mental illness is very, very real. — Wendy Williams Copy Share Image
“SAMHSA treatment referral helpline: 1-877- SAMHSA7. It can be a long and difficult road, but mental illness is treatable. There is hope,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Everyone wanted me to feed them that story—darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too.” — John Green Copy Share Image
[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of… — Sam Harris 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
Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Depression is something that has always figured in my life but now I'm dealing with it. I wish I'd done this years… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
“He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.” — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
“You're surrounded by people and voices and noises, but there you are, alone and trembling inside. And you want to be invisible.… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
![“…modern man no longer communicates with the madman […] There is no common language: or rather, it no longer exists; the constitution of madness as mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, bears witness to a rupture in a dialogue, gives the separation as already enacted, and expels…” quote by Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/177/michel-foucault-1134_communication_modern-man-no-longer-communicates-with-t_446934.jpg)
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