Best Mental Illness Lines

390 Mental Illness quotes by 281 unique authors

We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United… — Elyn Saks
Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness. — Elyn Saks
Men, I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. … Gender equality is your issue, too. … I've seen young men… — Emma Watson
So, because I have a mental illness I should disappear and hide? Ever since I went into hospital, all I have heard and read about… — Charlotte Dawson
Nothing more isolating than a mental illness. — Hannibal
Having to parent your mother or father is a challenge that way too many teens have to deal with. Teens whose parents are dealing with… — Laurie Halse Anderson
The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no… — John Fowles
My highest achievement: never shutting my heart down. Even in my darkest moments - through sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 14, lies and betrayals -… — Oprah Winfrey
[I] learned ... that friends are a good source of food and soul when one has not yet gotten the hang of cooking or living… — Marya Hornbacher
Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions. — Unknown Author
The only way past the pain is through it. Pain, grief, anger, misery...they don't go away-they just increase and compound and get worse. You have… — Jasinda Wilder
A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood. — Ben H. Winters
I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its savage fancies, I… — Eric G. Wilson
I could feel myself begin to recede, to tip and lose balance, slide toward the deeper darkness that had crept in from outside. It happened… — Bryan Mealer
... I feel tired to death, paralyzed by this mysteriously wasted life's stubborn concentration on hopelessness and dissolution. It occurs to me that if I… — Christer Kihlman
I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came… — Betsy Lerner
At the end of each therapy session, I waited for an evaluation, a clinical judgment, some kind of pronouncement on "my condition." I hoped I… — Unknown Author
His impression was that he had been imprisoned in a shelter deep down in the underworld of his personality, listening and biding his time while… — Christer Kihlman
Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under… — Rebecca Wells
... it is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person. — George Howe Colt
The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings. — Patricia Deegan
We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious and are of… — Patricia Deegan
We are a conspiracy of hope and we are pressing back against the strong tide of oppression which for centuries has been the legacy of… — Patricia Deegan
While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness. — Unknown Author
The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are… — Mariel Hemingway

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