I want to break the stigma, the silence and shame that often surrounds mental illness. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
“Today I am a lens, a pen, a gun." --p. 1 ...Before My Eyes...look for it on 2.11.14” — Caroline Bock Copy Share Image
“You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees bottomless pit in yours.” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“You shouldn't talk to people about the future if you don't believe in one for yourself.” — Francisco X. Stork Copy Share Image
“I’m tired of dealing with crazies. When did it become my job to manage your mental illness?” — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
I had my job, which I loved to do, which I was really good at. I was at the top of my… — Mardy Fish Copy Share Image
“Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“We have a mental health system that is dominated by political and hidden forces that keep us stagnated and unable to see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mental illness lives all around us every day. I've seen it in other family members, I've seen it in friends, and I've… — Rachel Hollis Copy Share Image
To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
“it’s important for people to hear from [those] who have good fulfilling lives and manage chronic mental illness as part of those… — John Green Copy Share Image
“If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain… — Diane Wood Middlebrook Copy Share Image
I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
There was a time when I was way too reliant upon other people's opinions and perspective of me. And I guess over… — Moby Copy Share Image
“When you speak of my insanity, please let it be with the beauty only art knows. Let it bleed till it becomes… — P.H. Wilson Copy Share Image
I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
“Cause I'd rather stay here With all the madmen Than perish with the sadmen roaming free And I'd rather play here With… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“What sticks with me now is that this man said he needed to get to a hospital. He probably needed to reach… — Susan Nielsen Copy Share Image
“We must understand that those who experience abuse as children, and particularly those who experience incest, almost invariably suffer from a profound… — Cameron West Copy Share Image
“It is necessary to make this point in answer to the 'iatrogenic' theory that the unveiling of repressed memories in MPD sufferers,… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“In the absence of any therapy, the mentally ill of the 20th century were chained, shackled, straitjacketed, kept nude, electrocuted, half-frozen, parboiled,… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“The disorders that psychology associates with the dissonance between what parents say to children and what children know to be reality -… — Hugh Brody Copy Share Image
“The distinction between diseases of "brain" and "mind," between "neurological" problems and "psychological" or "psychiatric" ones, is an unfortunate cultural inheritance that… — António R. Damásio Copy Share Image
“One of the paradoxical and transformative aspects of implicit traumatic memory is that once it is accessed in a resourced way (through… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“The programme into which Cheryl was inducted combined all the different ways the intelligence community had learned could cause intense psychological change… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
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