Best Mental Illness Proverbs
390 Mental Illness quotes by 281 unique authors
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Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special…
— Jennifer Gilmore
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When I talk to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and other patient support groups, I take questions at the end. At one talk…
— Mark Vonnegut
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I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I would become a…
— John Forbes Nash
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One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite…
— Martin Seligman
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It was clear: I was sick. I never used to dream. They say in the old days it was the most normal thing in the…
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found…
— Elyn Saks
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Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing…
— Iain McGilchrist
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Early diagnosis is so important because the earlier a mental illness can be detected, diagnosed and treatment can begin, the better off that person can…
— Rosalynn Carter
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Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.
— Elyn Saks
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A comedian is simply a different kind of therapist. A comedian is a psychologist and a psychiatrist rolled into one. Except I can't prescribe medicine.…
— Eugene Mirman
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Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to…
— Pete Earley
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These Jews who run things, who are producing this mental illness teenage suicide...all these Jewish sicknesses...that's nothing new. The Talmud's full of things like sex…
— David Duke
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We have a dysfunctional dream of the planet, and humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear. The symptoms of the disease are all…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar…
— Pete Earley
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Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.
— Susanna Kaysen
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One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
— Alastair Campbell
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The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own culture. In Yeats'…
— Brad Blanton
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People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is…
— Pete Earley
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It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is generally…
— Scott Stossel
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And then I realized that my sister was trying to LIVE a romance novel. Man, that takes courage and imagination. Well, it also took some…
— Sherman Alexie
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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
— Irving Stone
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The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And why is it?
— Saint Augustine
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Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.
— Carl Jung
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All of us are crazy in one or another way.
— Theodore Isaac Rubin
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