Those who try to "break on through to the other side" not only cannot predict what they may find there, but are… — Charles Shaar Murray Copy Share Image
My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's enough just to speak when spoken to, to give some minimal reaction to a stimulus. But to actually be the stimulus… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
“We are all unique in our minds in varied ways. I find pleasure In nature as you find it in alcohol. How… — Yefon Isabelle Copy Share Image
“We’d like to believe that by discussing what has occurred will change things. Until now, here’s a mental illness that must be… — Benjamin Janey Copy Share Image
I love being from a screwed up family. We have everything in my family: prescription drug abuse, mental illness, one of my… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
Forty percent of the people who are being treated for mental illness are not addressing the physical body. — Linda Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Thanksgiving is no time for amateur hour in the kitchen, but we were subjected to this Gong Show on a yearly basis.… — Harold Phifer Copy Share Image
There is so much to be celebrated about mental illness. I do believe that there is something to be said about the… — Mauro Ranallo Copy Share Image
“We got through it. Haven made excuses for me to friends, and made an appointment with a terrific doctor, who put me… — Tyler Hamilton Copy Share Image
Every time the DSM prepares for a new edition, there are countless groups lobbying to get their particular mental illness recognized by… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Our brokenness is our greatest strength. I've been broken all my life, for my life is one on the spectrum with OCD… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
,what saved my life was my husband. He nursed me back to health, and he continues to do that to this day.… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
“Psychosis can happen out of the blue, to anyone, and no one knows why. Not even the best doctors on the planet.… — Jeannine Garsee Copy Share Image
“A significant number of people diagnosed with mental illness have psychic abilities not yet under control. They may have true mental illness… — Shepherd Hoodwin Copy Share Image
Creative people often feel highs of joy and lows of sorrow that others may never experience, and perhaps could not even handle… — Duncan Long Copy Share Image
“Her parents, she said, has put a pinball machine inside her head when she was five years old. The red balls told… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Perhaps this is the bottom line to mental illness: incomprehensible events occur; your life becomes a bin for hoax-like fluctuations of what… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“There is an element of selfishness to this, I suppose. It feels pretty good to be able to so quickly help someone.… — Kitty Dukakis Copy Share Image
“And if we do speak out, we risk rejection and ridicule. I had a best friend once, the kind that you go… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, you will go through awful trials in your life and then a miracle happens--God heals you. Don’t be disheartened when the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“I primarily use poetry as a purge, a self-medication device when I’m in the depths of loneliness, anxiety or in the throes… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
“As she fell, Esther wasn’t worried about being blown off course and plummeting into the rocks below. She wasn’t worried about hitting… — Krystal Sutherland Copy Share Image
“But, darling, I need you to know, you loving me will not heal me. Please realize, I already know that. And I… — R. YS Perez Copy Share Image
I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
“Never give up on someone with a mental illness. When "I" is replaced by "We", illness becomes wellness.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are… — Patricia Deegan Copy Share Image
“That is what madness is, isn't it? All the wheels fly off the bus and things don't make sense any more. Or… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“What other than mental illness spurs normal people to write prolifically? The chief cause is not quite illness, but nearly: love, especially… — Alice W. Flaherty Copy Share Image
I became attached to people I shouldn't. I distance myself from the people who matter. I am bad with people. I am… — PP Copy Share Image
Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly? — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Not a lot of people know it, but I don't have any qualms about saying it - there's a lot of mental… — Donna Lynne Champlin Copy Share Image
Early diagnosis is so important because the earlier a mental illness can be detected, diagnosed and treatment can begin, the better off… — Rosalynn Carter Copy Share Image
What most people call talent is our way to vent, and if were not discovered it will never pay the rent. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
In the 1830s, Dorothea Dix revolutionized the care of people with mental illness by taking them out of jails and caring for… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
“I was thinking about stabbing myself in the face—not actually considering stabbing myself in the face, but thinking that it would be… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image