Conversation Quote by Eliza Scanlen

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under…

— Gene Tierney

Some of the brightest, most creative minds have been touched by mental illness.

— Mauro Ranallo

It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed or cliché.

— Brian Lindstrom

If you want to be a sharp thinker, be around sharp people.

— John C. Maxwell

Are you seeing a psychiatrist?' as a conversation opener would nowadays earn you a punch in the nose, but for fifty years it was…

— Barbara Holland

Mental illness, unfortunately, is an invisible disease: it's not seen or heard. For whatever reason, because of that, society has decided that if we…

— Mauro Ranallo

It's a tricky thing to play mental illness or being connected to a higher sensibility.

— Daniel Zovatto

Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort…

— Thomas Szasz

I'd always been fascinated by people who allow themselves to be so rude and irritated and foul-mouthed and hostile, but usually you can sense…

— Paul Dano

“Now, I would say to myself, you are feeling alienated from people and unlike other people, therefore you are projecting your discomfort onto them.…

— Susanna Kaysen

There's such a stigma around mental illness, and this idea that you're going to come off as disturbed or weak somehow by being open…

— Shannon Purser

Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body…

— Ruby Wax