“... very few people know that porn has not been shown to cause mental illness or crime... there is no evidence for… — Debbie Nathan Copy Share Image
“This painful mental illness is not fair, but saying it is not fair does not change anything. Thinking that you should not… — Valerie Porr M.A Copy Share Image
Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I have been struggling with mental illness and emptiness throughout my life. Now I want people to understand my glorious quest for… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
Children whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies are much less likely to reoffend.… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
“I wish bad brain stuff was an actual guy I could punch in the face. PTSD, panic attacks, anxiety, flashbacks, hallucinations, anything… — RoAnna Sylver Copy Share Image
“I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world,… — J. Cornell Michel Copy Share Image
“Haymitch isn't thinking of arenas, but something else. "Johanna's back in the hospital." I assumed Johanna was fine, had passed her exam,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“To talk about arson is to talk about buildings burning down. To talk about the term 'pyromania' is really to talk about… — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
“Faith is like a mental illness,” Richard Dawkins has said, “a great cop out, the excuse to evade the need to think… — Mark Clark Copy Share Image
“There will be plenty of people who will attempt to belittle or humiliate you because you have an illness, they are ignorant… — Carol Franklin Copy Share Image
“Over and over again, the same message, 'you are not enough'. You hear it enough times and it weaves itself into you,… — Lauren Miller Copy Share Image
“Other personalities are created to handle new traumas, their existence usually occurring one at a time. Each has a singular purpose and… — Lynn Hersha Copy Share Image
“Suicide is a form of murder— premeditated murder. It isn’t something you do the first time you think of doing it. It… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“Today, our view of genuine reality is increasingly clouded by professionals whose technical expertise often introduces a superficial and soulless model of… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day… — Frank Bruno Copy Share Image
How crazy craziness makes everyone, how irrationally afraid. The madness hidden in each of us, called to, identified, aroused like a lust.… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
I think Hell exists on Earth. It's a psychological state, or it can be a physical state. People who have severe mental… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
“Hey, Mom, I'm a married woman now. I want to have ten babies and live here forever and ever." How weird is… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“I ended up sitting right next to Sexy Patty. The placement wasn’t on purpose. (I needed the hands of God, not a… — Harold Phifer Copy Share Image
Some view mental illness as a purely spiritual issue and deny the need for medication or other forms of treatment. Others view… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
“The worst part about anxiety attacks, is that you’re aware it’s irrational and sometimes unexplainable, but knowing that gives no aid what… — Ami Desu Copy Share Image
“You can forgive yourself," Daniel had insisted. "I don't think I can," she'd replied. He continued to hold her. "I know everything… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
It's really kind of overwhelming and staggering to me how many people I know that have mental illness and there's not one… — Maya Forbes Copy Share Image
“The idea to go West just fell into my lap from the sky. Go west, young man. That’s how the best ideas… — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
“In Martin Seligman's words, 'Psychology is half-baked, literally half-baked. We have baked the part about mental illness. We have baked the part… — Donald O. Clifton Copy Share Image
This is a word that is not a scientific term. This is a rhetorical tool of psychological manipulation... Because everyone knows if… — Scott Lively Copy Share Image
“The Flock have come a long way in their acceptance of this, and when a professional refused to deal with them in… — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“ I'm here , I said, but I knew, increasingly, I wasn't here, and I felt that able-to-weep-and-be-seen version of myself that… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
You need community support. You're pretty defeated when you're laid low with a mental illness. It's a frightening place to be, and… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
Emotional well-being is more than the absence of a mental illness. It's that resource within each of us which allows us to… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
My honesty about mental illness has helped open a door for real conversation, and I think Justin wants to continue that conversation.… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
Every day on our streets there are people who are facing a combination of homelessness, mental illness, and addiction. Each of these… — London Breed Copy Share Image
People with mental health problems are almost never dangerous. In fact, they are more likely to be the victims than the perpetrators.… — Roy Blunt Copy Share Image
The only way past the pain is through it. Pain, grief, anger, misery...they don't go away-they just increase and compound and get… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
On one level my sense of despair had been dispelled by therapy, yet on another it had not been replaced by either… — Anthony Loyd Copy Share Image
“I don't want to be the person who gasps in fear whenever she hears the sound of a doorbell or a phone.… — Mira Bartok Copy Share Image
“The drug I take is called schizophrenia, among other labels, which I desperately want to put away. I want to put the… — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image