Difficult Quote by Gene Tierney

“Many so-called disorders of the mind are simply disorders of thought.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

When my disease nearly destroyed me in 2009, my doctors thought I'd be lucky to regain 80 percent of my cognitive abilities. When I…

— Susannah Cahalan

Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that…

— Camille Paglia

The very term ['mental disease'] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more have a…

— E. Fuller Torrey

The problem with mental illness, as opposed to physical illness, is that it involves wrong thinking or impaired insight. You're not thinking correctly.

— Margaret Trudeau

“Mental illnesses are so strange. A physical problem we can understand. But when the mind works irrationally, well, by its very definition, the rational…

— Harlan Coben

Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not fully analogous to physical disease. They resist classification, and might…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

Mental illness is so hard to define. It's not like an umbrella diagnosis that everyone can fall under, and even one person can have…

— Stephanie Labbe

“Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes.”

— Thomas Scheff

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your…

— Hilary Mantel

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated,…

— Thomas Szasz

“The maladies of the spirit alone, in abstracto, that is, error and sin, can be called diseases of the mind only per analogiam. They…

— Ernst Von Feuchtersleben