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““Faking mental illness to get out of a prison sentence, he explained, is exactly the kind of deceitful and manipulative act you’d expect of a psychopath.””

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Trying to prove you’re not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you’re not mentally ill,’ said Tony.

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“We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside of it.”

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My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don't believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine what the…

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Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet.

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“The consensus from the beginning was that only 1 percent of humans had it, but the chaos they caused was so far-reaching it could…

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“That's an incredibly depressing thought," I said "that if you're in a room and at one end lies madness and at the other end…

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The world outside Twitter was great. I read books. I reconnected with people I knew from real life and met them for drinks in…

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“What a brilliant cover story. In a success-obsessed society like this one, what's the best rock to hide something under? It's the rock called…

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“I swear that I will never cause trouble for anybody, as long as I live!! So please! Nobody cause any trouble for me, either!!”

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This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

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“Today, our view of genuine reality is increasingly clouded by professionals whose technical expertise often introduces a superficial and soulless model of the person…

Arthur Kleinman

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I think we need to talk about mental illness a lot more. People complain about tax dollars and say we don't have the money.…

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“Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.”

Shannon L. Alder

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Having an eating disorder doesn't show ‘strength.’ Strength is when are able to overcome your demons after being sick and tired for so long.…

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There are people with much bigger profiles than mine who are talking about mental illness. I am going to try to use whatever platform…

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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

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“It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated, but this says nothing about their causation. If it is true, for instance,…

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love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!

Eric Jerome Dickey

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“The word is dissociate. There is no 'a' before the 'ss'. People invariably say dis-a-ssociate, which, if you're suffering Disso-ciative Identity Disorder/Multiple Personality Disorder,…

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Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

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