Mental disorder Quote by Allen Frances

If we are to believe the evidence from clinical trials there are many effective pharmacological and psychological treatments for mental illness. Epidemiological data, on…

— Richard Bentall

“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in…

— Shannon L. Alder

Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates of recovery…

— Richard Bentall

“Anxiety disorders are easily the most common mental illnesses, affecting nearly one in five adult Americans in any given year and 30 percent of people”

— Henry Emmons

There is also evidence from epidemiological studies that psychotic-like experiences are much more common than has hitherto been thought (with about 10% of the…

— Richard Bentall

Mental illness is by far the most misunderstood, and stigmatized, of all afflictions. Statistically, one in three families in the U.S. deals with mental…

— Neal Shusterman

Mental disorders don't really live 'out there' waiting to be explained. They are constructs we have made up - and often not very compelling…

— Allen Frances

“Thus the incidence of mental illness correlates closely to income in the US and the UK,”

— Tony Judt

“We have been focusing on the role that psychiatry and its medications may be playing in this epidemic, and the evidence is quite clear.…

— Robert Whitaker

The likelihood is that you or someone you know closely will suffer from a mental health condition in your lifetime.

— Olly Alexander

There's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill and we're all haunted by something, and some people manage to find a…

— John Darnielle

Most people have been touched by the battles of mental illness in some way or another. It's either going on in their families or…

— Tom Kitt