“Indeed, long-term elevated cortisol levels can lower immune function and bone density; elevate blood pressure, cholesterol and body weight; increase the risk… — Matt Lewis Copy Share Image
“When i spend too much time in my head, focused on things in the past or things in the future... when i… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
“I was struck by the image of Daddy still dressed in that same plaid shirt and undershirt with the bloodstains below the… — Earl B. Russell Copy Share Image
The disturbed individual who believes himself to be Christ, or to receive messages from God, is something of a cliche in our… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it… — Tommy Douglas Copy Share Image
Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“They both carried a million cracks beneath the skin. Even under the stark light of the fluorescents, it was hard to see… — Pam Godwin Copy Share Image
I wrote a 'Lenny Letter' on a whim, and it felt indulgent, but people came up to me with tears in their… — Whitney Cummings Copy Share Image
“...I am uncontrollable and dangerous. But of course I do not say this to Jake, mostly because he has never been locked… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
“But you must decide whether you are going to pursue reality and health or to retreat into your fantasies . You have… — Talitha Day Fair Copy Share Image
“Szasz opposed any involuntary psychiatric intervention and, along with the Cuckoo’s Nest portrayal, paved the way for the disastrous dismantling of U.S.… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“You see, people in the depressive position are often stigmatised as ‘failures' or ‘losers'. Of course, nothing could be further from the… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
There's no straight line between closing the mental institutions and filling the prisons but there is some sort of relationship. And it's… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
“As a child I had been taken to see Dr Bradshaw on countless occasions; it was in his surgery that Billy had… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“If there is something intangible about mental illness generally, depression is all the harder to define because it tends to creep in… — Daphne Merkine Copy Share Image
“GREED is truly the most terrible challenge of our times, and capitalism is its tool, its means to power and more greed.… — William Donelson Copy Share Image
If people can talk about having breast cancer, why can't people who have mental illness talk about mental illness? Until we're able… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
To be on the safe and humane side, let every relative and friend ... remember the golden rule, which has never been… — Clifford Whittingham Beers Copy Share Image
“I've got to that point in life when there's very few thrills and lots of pills seems we all end up this… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“The very use of the term "mental illness" (rather than, say, "neurosis", "insanity", "nervous breakdown", or other euphemisms) can be seen as… — Carl Elliott Copy Share Image
“Bipolar illness, manic depression, manic-depressive illness, manic-depressive psychosis. That’s a nice way of saying you will feel so high that no street… — Christine F. Anderson Copy Share Image
“This is as close as I've ever heard to a Thomas and Carmel argument. And as special as it is to listen… — Kendare blake Copy Share Image
It's my belief that, since the end of the Second World War, psychology has moved too far away from its original roots,… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
I yearned to get better; I told myself I was getting better. In fact, the depression was still there, like a powerful… — Tracy Thompson Copy Share Image
I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don't develop a mental illness because they are in the… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image
“There is such a thing as crazy-mother bonding. . . . It happens when one realizes the other also has had a… — Minrose Gwin Copy Share Image
“Popular culture has twisted it, but popular culture has twisted madness in general. They make it funny, they romanticize it, or they… — wildbow Copy Share Image
What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
I think it backfired. It wasn't what I expected, it was difficult. I didn't expect them to throw somany mind games into… — Sophie Anderton Copy Share Image
“The Catholic Church created strict guidelines for the rite of exorcism back in 1614—guidelines that have remained largely unchanged in 400 years.… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
“Emily woke to shadows and their voices. They looked different today, because the entire world hurt. The numbness had worn off sometime… — Allie Burke Copy Share Image
“A sensual woman is the best escape and emotional cure for a man who's soul is distressed. If women could learn that,… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
“Do you still have any delusions? For instance, does the furniture threaten you like you said the bureau did at home?" "No,… — Barbara Field Benziger Copy Share Image
If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Only those who have been on the receiving end of poverty, unemployment, homelessess, mental illness, domestic violence, racism, sexism or ageism can… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
“Psychiatric disorders are the only kind of sickness that we as a society regularly respond to not with sympathy but with handcuffs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rachael Leigh Cook was my leading lady. She was awesome. We loved the show [Perception ]. Again, it was more of a… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
“Some people think mental illness is a matter of mood, a matter of personality. They think depression is simply a form of… — David Levithan Copy Share Image