One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Fuck 'em. They don't know what you know.' And it's true. None of these people know what we know.” — Marie Marquardt Copy Share Image
Too many people will die needlessly if we go back to letting people buy junk insurance or insurance that doesn't help people… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
When I look at the patients that I've cared for with mental illness, I know that many of them took years to… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
“Mental illness do not designate a set path to failure. It’s simply a chemical or hormone imbalance that causes individuals to accept… — Okisha Jackson Copy Share Image
What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist? — Peter D. Kramer Copy Share Image
One Day, I will Wake up and Will Not have to live in this madness anymore. But No matter what I do… — Dakota Blue Cicilline Copy Share Image
I think we need to talk about mental illness a lot more. People complain about tax dollars and say we don't have… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
Countries with the best-resourced medical services have the best outcomes for physical illness (it is better to have a heart attack in… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
“Except then I wonder what it's like to feel normal because if you take away the things I've felt all my life--the… — Kelley York Copy Share Image
Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning,… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“When I read, I read desperately because I was desperate — desperate to exchange my own anxious thoughts for the calming thoughts… — Sean Norris Copy Share Image
“Nick shook his head. “It amazes me that there’s still such a huge stigma about mental illness here.” “ ‘Stigma’ implies that something… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
“During my sorrowful outburst, my mother had remained entirely impassive. But then why not? Was she not mad? Nay, she was not.… — Geoff Cooper Copy Share Image
“Nathaniel is not a mentally ill musician, as I have been referring to him, but a musician with mental illness. It's a… — Steve Lopez Copy Share Image
“How have individuals been affected by the technological advances of recent years? Here is the answer to this question given by a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“It’s a little-known secret, and it should probably stay that way: attempting suicide usually jump-starts your brain chemistry. There must be something… — Terri Cheney Copy Share Image
There was a guy with mental illness in the middle of the street just yelling and hollering. I have a number that… — Lori Petty Copy Share Image
“To the men and women who changed Cheryl Hersha's life, she was a continuation of the research that had first been conducted… — Lynn Hersha Copy Share Image
Even with all that - excellent treatment, wonderful family and friends, supportive work environment - I did not make my illness public… — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
“I see things in windows and I say to myself that I want them. I want them because I want to belong.… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
“In our family "whim-wham" is code, a defanged reference to any number of moods and psychological disorders, be they depressive, manic, or… — David Lovelace Copy Share Image
“Black-and-white thinking is the addict's mentality, which can be a bar to recovery when one is still active. But an addict who… — Michael Prager Copy Share Image
I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not… — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane. — Kristin Scott Thomas Copy Share Image
Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
There was a really positive environment in my household around a conversation about mental illness, and that helped me never really feel… — Noah Kahan Copy Share Image
While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me. — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
A lot of people are ashamed to talk about mental illness. To me, it's power to give people that. — Ahmad Balshe Copy Share Image
Mental illness and eating disorders can affect anyone - every age, race, and gender - and I'm so proud to be a… — Matthew Koma Copy Share Image
I've invaded the walls of the asylums with my ink pen. The way they look at mental illness won't be the same… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression. — Gail Porter Copy Share Image
“Preaching a man a sermon with a broken head and telling him to be right with God is equal to telling a… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
“Age, mental illness, and failure are all in the mind. They put the pain there to let you know it hurts.” — David Holmes Copy Share Image
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