America turns its back on the mentally ill. It likes to think it doesn't, but it does. — David Means Copy Share Image
Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug. — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
It is now no mystery that some quite influential philosophers were mentally ill. — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
But sometimes I'd feel more fulfilled making Christmas cards with the mentally ill. I want to live and I want to love.… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I think that I'm so psychotic and so mentally ill that if I could tap into that I could do something really… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
When they are treated, the seriously mentally ill aren't more violent than the general population. If untreated, though, they are. — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
If we are going to get serious about 'gun violence' we should get serious about facing the facts of the violent mentally… — Martha MacCallum Copy Share Image
“But now I remember: I am mentally ill. Properly, officially. And cannot be held responsible for my actions, my words.” — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
It seems like the requirements for my characters are that I have to be either mentally ill or disturbed in some way,… — Cameron Monaghan Copy Share Image
“Just the existence of a single mentally challenged or mentally ill person should make us change any of our theories about the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it… — Gabrielle Giffords Copy Share Image
I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
Texas is a great place to be rich and a terrible place to be poor. It's got the highest percentage of people… — Gail Collins 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
“Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the world, a place where the U.S. government now puts… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Let me get this straight. A mentally ill madman goes on a shooting spree to assassinate a United States Congressperson... and the… — Wayne Allyn Root Copy Share Image
Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with an… — Chester Middlebrook Pierce Copy Share Image
“Librarians are trained to be polite, patient, and helpful, no matter who stands across the reference desk.The most important thing is that… — Robert Dawson Copy Share Image
The dumping of the mentally ill, full of these new psychiatric drugs, into the streets is a scandal. It's been carried furthest… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
People say to the mentally ill, ‘You know so many people think the world of you.’ But when they don’t like themselves… — Richey Edwards Copy Share Image
“She didn’t want to admit to herself, let alone to the outside world, that she had been placed in a ghetto, just… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“This and countless later experiences working in and around the world of "shrinks" and the mentally ill has led me to the… — Oliver James Copy Share Image
“THE MYTHS ABOUT ABUSERS 1. He was abused as a child. 2. His previous partner hurt him. 3. He abuses those he… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Hippocrates, the ancient Greek doctor, concluded in the fourth century B.C. that pathological anxiety was a straightforward biological and medical problem. “If… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
“Those who fail to exhibit positive attitudes, no matter the external reality, are seen as maladjusted and in need of assistance. Their… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“The public debate plays out in an infinite regress of blame over who’s responsible for those who fail to fit the standard… — Jesse Bering Copy Share Image
“Sadism dominates the culture. It runs like an electric current through reality television and trash-talk programs, is at the core of pornography,… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“As porn has gone mainstream, ushered two decades ago into middle-class living rooms and dens with VCRs and now available on the… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“The Army psychiatrist who last saw Ivan Lopez found no “sign of likely violence, either to himself or to others.”42 James Holmes’s… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share Image
“Original Statement by Hunger Strikers to Psychiatric Association, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill and the U.S. Office of the Surgeon General… — Seth Farber 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
Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image