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390 Mental Illness quotes by 281 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering. — Carl Jung
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
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
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
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
The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness. — Ashley Montagu
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them — Francis Parker Yockey
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
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
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
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
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
There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness. — Dave Barry
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
Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things. — Robert Smithson
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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