Answers Quote by Jon Ronson

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely…

— Glenn Close

The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.

— Michel Foucault

“Nick shook his head. “It amazes me that there’s still such a huge stigma about mental illness here.” “ ‘Stigma’ implies that something exists but…

— Kevin Kwan

“There are far too many silent sufferers.  Not because they don't yearn to reach out, but because they've tried and found no one who…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

One day, I made a remark that I might work with people with mental illness, and somebody in the press heard it ,and it…

— Rosalynn Carter

“I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that every conversation I had with…

— Antonin Artaud

“Silence can often be more disturbing than noise, it reveals the complicated mechanism of our thoughts”

— Jose Rodrigues Migueis

It was his subconscious which told him this---that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges…

— Douglas Adams

“complicated human behavior was increasingly getting labeled a mental disorder.”

— Jon Ronson

“People's behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world's version of insanity.”

— Shannon L. Alder

When I talk to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and other patient support groups, I take questions at the end. At one…

— Mark Vonnegut

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