I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it. — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness. — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
In the terms of 'Mental Illness' Isn't stable a place they put horses that wish to run free? — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one. — Marsha M. Linehan Copy Share Image
Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
“If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well.” — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I said to my doctor, 'You gotta testme, there's something wrong with me that I would be behaving this way.' — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
Mental illness was a family secret. This patient had four children grow up in foster homes, and they never knew her. It… — Sean Moran Copy Share Image
“The ancient Greeks considered love a mental illness that led to suicide, homicide, betrayal, war, all sorts of fun.” — Marion G. Harmon Copy Share Image
“victim noun \ˈvik-təm\ 1. The moment you tell everyone you have a mental disorder, in order to excuse your behavior.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
The Republican Party cannot be anti-trade, anti-immigrant, not out there practicing the politics of people, you know, the issues surrounding drug addiction… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
“It was the face of a human being who’d been constructed exclusively of wounds. Not time or history or ambition, nothing but… — Ryu Murakami Copy Share Image
The sooner you 'settle' the sooner you'll be allowed home" was the ruling logic; and "if you can't adapt yourself to living… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Yes, I talk about eating disorders and you know, excessive dieting and excessive exercising can be a sign of a mental illness...… — Sophie Gregoire Trudeau Copy Share Image
The madhouse is in a lot of places, not just a hospital, not just a palace, but also a pattern woven from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
His impression was that he had been imprisoned in a shelter deep down in the underworld of his personality, listening and biding… — Christer Kihlman Copy Share Image
He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
“Until fairly recently, there has been precious little research on expectant fathers’ emotional and psychological experiences during pregnancy. The very title of… — Armin A. Brott Copy Share Image
“We have been focusing on the role that psychiatry and its medications may be playing in this epidemic, and the evidence is… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
I've never had a sustained period of medication for mental illness when I've not been on other drugs as well. It's just… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“Mental illness is no different than a heart condition. In the same way a faulty valve can cause harm to the body… — Heidi Cullinan Copy Share Image
“My mind feels like a race car on the track, getting faster and faster every time I pause to think or blink… — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
“People with mental illness are very much like people without mental illness only more so. What we lose with a psychotic episode… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Everything in life, except her kids, made her impatient. She had tried to do a million things. She'd wanted to be a… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, many in our homeless community suffer from severe mental illness. — Kevin Faulconer Copy Share Image
“A nightmare has taken hold of my body. Lunacy has dug its way inside my mind.” — Amanda Steele Copy Share Image
“Every one wants to be a Genius. But only the brave choose to go mad to get there...” — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“My psychiatrist said I had charisma so at least I'm certified” — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
