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Mental Illness Quotes by Elyn Saks
- Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses.
- 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…
- Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.
- No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that…
- 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…
- Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.
More Mental Illness Quotes
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. — Margaret Atwood
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks… — Marcus Aurelius
- I always had a dissociative disorder. But I healed from it over the course of 14 years of big-time therapy. But, you… — Roseanne Barr
- The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. — Alfred Adler
- The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of… — Rita Mae Brown
- Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day… — Frank Bruno
- Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad,… — Frank Bruno
- I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up. — Kirstie Alley
- The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred… — Leonard Cohen
- When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a… — Fiona Apple
- If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it… — Tommy Douglas