“The individual who "adjusts" has managed to relegate the two contradictory injunctions of the double bind - to imitate and not to… — René Girard Copy Share Image
“It is not the darkness of shadows: one that follows you, haunts you, terrifies you. Instead, it consumes you, becomes you, weighs… — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
“Working simultaneously, though seemingly without a conscience, was Dr. Ewen Cameron, whose base was a laboratory in Canada's McGill University, in Montreal.… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel allowed to… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
“This is what happens to the brain of those living with mental illnesses (more accurately, "brain illnesses"). The brain does not function… — Kevin Hines Copy Share Image
“There's this mental illness, right? It's called 'anhedonia.' It means 'without pleasure.' You can look it up, though all you really need… — Vicki Pettersson Copy Share Image
“The physical shape of Mollies paralyses and contortions fit the pattern of late-nineteenth-century hysteria as well — in particular the phases of… — Michelle Stacey Copy Share Image
“Just as I’m about to continue walking along the shoreline, the left third of the iceberg breaks off suddenly and crashes violently,… — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
The mind commands the body, and it obeys forthwith; the mind commands itself, and is resisted. The mind commands the hand to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
An ideologue may be defined as a mad intellectual. He is not interested in ideas, butalmost the exact contraryin one idea. When… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
“I attempted to be clear and straightforward in my approach to Dr Tate, deferring to his medical expertise and stating my desire… — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“David Lester, a psychology professor at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey, has likely thought about suicide longer, harder, and from more… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
It was clear: I was sick. I never used to dream. They say in the old days it was the most normal… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Oh God just look at me now... one night opens words and utters pain... I cannot begin to explain to you... this...… — Emily Andrews Copy Share Image
“In this chapter I restrict myself to exploring the nature of the amnesia which is reported between personality states in most people… — John Morton Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, the patients who presented to me self-diagnosed [with Dissociative Identity Disorder] had tried to tell previous therapists of their plight, but… — Richard P. Kluft Copy Share Image
“Asperger's Syndrome is a neurological condition, not a mental illness. Some parts of your brain are over-wired, and work more than other… — Carol Shay Hornung Copy Share Image
There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Like a lot of people with mental illness, I spend a lot of time fronting. It’s really important to me to not… — S.E. Smith Copy Share Image
The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“My mom was sitting at the kitchen table. She’d set her coffee down, making a noise that made me look her way.… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
I don't believe anybody has a right to own any kind of a firearm. I believe in order to obtain a permit… — John Silber Copy Share Image
“It's not that we didn't love one another- we did. I just think we didn't know how to be with one another… — Liz Murray Copy Share Image
“Statistics say that a range of mental disorders affects more than one in four Americans in any given year. That means millions… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't… — Bebe Moore Campbell Copy Share Image
“There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous.… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“I began writing my nonfiction memoir to explain why women, "don't just leave." My exciting, narrative-driven memoir aspires to to save others… — Cassi Janzek Copy Share Image
“The exegesis Fat labored on month after month struck me as a Pyrrhic victory if there ever was one — in this… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“creeping fear of madness often accompanies depression. Sufferers wonder if their black moods will ever lift, or if their feelings of alienation… — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
I don't think people talk about mental illness a lot, but they need to know it's OK to talk about how they… — Michael Angelakos Copy Share Image
[I] learned ... that friends are a good source of food and soul when one has not yet gotten the hang of… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. "Many of them… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
![“Interestingly, the patients who presented to me self-diagnosed [with Dissociative Identity Disorder] had tried to tell previous therapists of their plight, but had been disbelieved. These therapists had used fallacious "capricious criteria" (KIuft, 1988) to discredit the diagnosis; e.g., that the…” quote by Richard P. Kluft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0cc/richard-p-kluft-44450_capricious_interestingly-the-patients-who-presented_680376.jpg)
![“[I] learned ... that friends are a good source of food and soul when one has not yet gotten the hang of cooking or living (as opposed to dying) alone. That nothing-not booze, not love, not sex, not work, not moving from state to state-will make the past disappear. Only time and patience heal…” quote by Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb9/marya-hornbacher-2109_arms_i-learned-that-friends-are-a-good-source_2817345.png)
