Being Bi polar there are times I love my mind and other times it hates me. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
I think that most of us instinctively avoid people with mental illness. — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
“All I have is me, myself and I and we are all getting really tired of each other.” — Carl White Copy Share Image
My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“Bipolar is an illness not a hopeless destination it can be maintained with proper medication” — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
I take medication every day for mental illness and depression and don't feel bad about it. — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small town, and mental illness wasn't something anyone talked about. — Rachel Hollis Copy Share Image
We must bring the issue of mental illness out into the sunlight, out of the shadow, out of the closet, deal with… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Sometimes the pain hurts so good it brings happy tears to my eyes and reminds me I'm still alive. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.” — Allie Burke Copy Share Image
“When we asked him to sum up his impression of the girls' emotional state at that point, he said, "Buffeted but not… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“After my first few tastes I was pretty much hooked. I'd have dry spells, months without any or only piddling amounts of… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“This was a characteroloical prelude, but it wasn’t chemical or somatic. It was the anatomy of melancholy, not the anatomy of his… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude. — Mark Spitz Copy Share Image
“As special as it is to listen to your friends argue over whether or not you have a mental illness,I'm starting to… — Kendare Blake Copy Share Image
We are a conspiracy of hope and we are pressing back against the strong tide of oppression which for centuries has been… — Patricia Deegan Copy Share Image
“I’ve never had anorexia, but I know it well. I see it on the street, in the gaunt and sunken face, the… — Harriet Brown Copy Share Image
“Mental illness" is among the most stigmatized of categories.' People are ashamed of being mentally ill. They fear disclosing their condition to… — Elyn R. Saks Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“There is stability in self-destruction, in prolonging sadness as a means of escaping abstractions like happiness. Rock bottom is a surprisingly comfortable… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“For generations, parents have shaped 'fine' but deeply restless human beings. We may know 'how to act' but we're losing sight of… — Rebecca Eanes Copy Share Image
I enjoy the fact that, as a gay man, there's relatively little pressure on me to act like a grown-up, but also… — Vestal McIntyre Copy Share Image
“The maladies of the spirit alone, in abstracto, that is, error and sin, can be called diseases of the mind only per… — Ernst Von Feuchtersleben Copy Share Image
“I remembered during puberty, through the anorexic mists of intermittent menstrual cycles, that man, my father, lifting Shirley's nightdress over her head… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
“Ivanov: No, my clever young thing, it's not a question of romance. I say as before God that I will endure everything… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“And you know the darkness beyond despair, just as intimately as you know the soaring heights. Because in this and all universes,… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“Marxism in the Soviet Union had been boiled down to the understanding that people—Soviet citizens—were shaped entirely by their society and the… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
When you have mental illness you don't have a plaster or a cast or a crutch, that let everyone know that you… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Logan looked at her and wondered how someone so beautiful could be so oblivious to their own beauty, how someone so smart… — Ali Harper Copy Share Image
“Between 10 and 20 percent of people with anorexia die from heart attacks, other complications and suicide; the disease has the highest… — Harriet Brown Copy Share Image
Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else. — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
It's a tricky thing to play mental illness or being connected to a higher sensibility. — Daniel Zovatto Copy Share Image
“Narcissists often feign oppression because narcissists always feel entitled.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Who am I fooling? Bad dreams never end. We just pretend they aren’t there.” — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
