Certainty Quote by Patricia Deegan

Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens…

— Pete Earley

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

We have to get the word out that mental illnesses can be diagnosed and treated, and almost everyone suffering from mental illness can live…

— Rosalynn Carter

How we handle mental illness can mean life or death.

— Nancy Mace

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

The people I know who suffer from mental illness, sometimes they do connect you to what it is to be really human. There's a…

— Maya Forbes

Mental illness is so hard to define. It's not like an umbrella diagnosis that everyone can fall under, and even one person can have…

— Stephanie Labbe

We need to treat people with mental illness like people.

— Mauro Ranallo

We enjoy a growing awareness and literacy around the symptoms of and remedies for mental illness. Thanks to brave public figures and persistent campaigners,…

— Luciana Berger

Mental health is a continuum, and people may fall anywhere on the spectrum.

— Amy Morin

Everyone has some sort of connection to mental illness.

— Alice Ripley

Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people "crazy," we exclude…

— John Darnielle