Mental health Quote by Megan Boyle

“The first time the extent of this problem was obvious to me was when I was hanging out with a small group of people…

— Simone Collins

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

— Thomas Scheff

“I do not use psychiatric terms in my writing because the entrenched and developing behaviours were perfectly normal reactions to abnormal situations.”

— Jane Hersey

During all my first twenty years, I was depressed, terribly unhappy, lonely, isolated (and self-rejecting).

— Abraham Maslow

It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might be lifelong,…

— Tracy Thompson

“The asylum, and later the national health service, warehoused thousands of patients made mad by the intrusions of a sexual predator. But these institutions…

— Beatrix Campbell

You would think that someone with all of those personalities inside could find at least one who wasn't depressed.

— Carole Hanrahan

“Women often feel ridiculous that they let someone this disordered into their lives and they didn't even recognize the symptoms until she was way…

— Sandra L. Brown

The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal…

— Aldous Huxley

I had spent years seeing all sorts of therapists and psychiatrists, but it was doing my head in, going round in constant circles. I…

— Rebecca Root

Shallow emotions. An incapacity to feel genuine love. A need for stimulation. Frequent verbal outbursts. Poor behavioural controls. These are just some of the…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

“Many of us live, if not alone, then in emotionally inadequate relationships that do not recognize or honour our deepest needs. Isolation and stress…

— Gabor Maté