Illness Quote by Linda Hamilton Download Open image “I want to destigmatize the words mental illness.” — Linda Hamilton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Illness Mental illness Psychology Want
I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness. — Gail Porter Copy Share Image
I want to break the stigma, the silence and shame that often surrounds mental illness. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice. — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Be dedicated to change the way in which people see mental illness, at all levels of society. If not for yourself, advocate for those… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place. — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Mental illness didn’t really change people. It just made them more of who they were going to be anyway. Mental illness was less like… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
The lows were absolutely horrible. It was like falling into a manhole and not being able to lift the lid and climb out. — Linda Hamilton Copy Share Image
I carry Yeats with me wherever I go. He's my constant companion. I always can find some comfort in Yeats no matter what the… — Linda Hamilton Copy Share Image
I recommend a balance between the therapies that are available, the medicines that are available but not to give up on the body as… — Linda Hamilton Copy Share Image
I'd go somewhere where no one spoke. I would take a stack of books up to my hips, and I'd read nonstop. And I'd… — Linda Hamilton Copy Share Image
As a teenager, even as a younger girl, I had some depression but no one really noticed that it was depression nor did I know in those days that that's what it was but I did feel different from other people. — Linda Hamilton Copy Share
Being physically fit doesn't mean anything if the mind isn't fit and being fit in the mind is not worth much if the body… — Linda Hamilton Copy Share Image
Well, I think it's important to stand as an advocate for the mentally ill. — Linda Hamilton Copy Share Image
My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's… — Linda Hamilton Copy Share Image
I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different… — Linda Hamilton Copy Share Image
Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia. — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
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.… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
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. Starving is not a ‘diet’ and throwing up isn't something that only extremely thin men or women do. Eating disorders do not discriminate..Neither does any other mental illness. These are deadly diseases that are taking lives… — Demi Lovato Copy Share
Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's more common than not that bipolar illness will start in the teens. One of the reasons I spend a lot of time on… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health… — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image