Artefacts Quote by Hilary Mantel

“Mental illness" is among the most stigmatized of categories.' People are ashamed of being mentally ill. They fear disclosing their condition to their friends…

— Elyn R. Saks

“The very use of the term "mental illness" (rather than, say, "neurosis", "insanity", "nervous breakdown", or other euphemisms) can be seen as an effort…

— Carl Elliott

There's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill and we're all haunted by something, and some people manage to find a…

— John Darnielle

You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Mental illness doesn't choose the most talented or the smartest or the richest or the poorest. It shows no mercy and often arrives like…

— Steve Lopez

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

“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in…

— Shannon L. Alder

Mental illness is a fact of life, like cancer or heart disease.

— Luciana Berger

“Mental Illnesses aren't bad – if you overcome them, you are much stronger than before – you bloom from Wounds from which you once bled.”

— Sino Melo

Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.

— John Darnielle

Any other illness, any other disease that we're faced with, there's sympathy and understanding. We get help for those. With mental illness, our go-to…

— Chris Wood

“When mental [illness] increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept…

— George Sand