Best Mental Illness Thoughts
390 Mental Illness quotes by 281 unique authors
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Severe mental illness like psychosis can lead to a tragedy like this - that people can see things that aren't real and hear things that…
— Andrea Yates
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When I started writing Tales of the City I was one year away from being a mental illness. It wasn't until 1975 that the American…
— Armistead Maupin
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A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion.
— Robert Todd Carroll
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Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't we, as a…
— Bebe Moore Campbell
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Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. This is a mental illness. It is like looking through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars. It is as…
— Joo Won
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We can and should complain about certain horrors of the modern world, but when it comes to the treatment of mental illness, the advances made…
— Rob Delaney
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Mental illness was a family secret. This patient had four children grow up in foster homes, and they never knew her. It was heart-wrenching for…
— Unknown Author
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Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of loyalty to a…
— Unknown Author
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The very term ['mental disease'] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more have a mental…
— E. Fuller Torrey
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The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.
— Carl Jung
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be…
— Fran Lebowitz
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Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and addiction, which leaves…
— Andy Behrman
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The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that…
— Andy Behrman
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Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems…
— Angela Davis
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The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
— Ashley Montagu
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To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them
— Francis Parker Yockey
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As well as being blind, Ma turned out to have the same mental illness that her mother had had. Between 1986 and 1990, she suffered…
— Liz Murray
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The less control people had over their work, the higher their blood pressure during work hours. Moreover, blood pressure at home was unrelated to the…
— Sheena Iyengar
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We have to get the word out that mental illnesses can be diagnosed and treated, and almost everyone suffering from mental illness can live meaningful…
— Rosalynn Carter
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Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's terrorizes us, it…
— Terry Pratchett
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There is nothing worse that you can do to a human being in America today than give them a mental illness kind of label and…
— Peter Breggin
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There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.
— Dave Barry
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The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of…
— Polly Toynbee
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Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.
— Robert Smithson
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The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude.
— Mark Spitz
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