Disease Quote by Randolph M. Nesse

“I mention a paradox of psychiatry: mental illness is recognized by the patient's distorted thoughts, but treatment is largely indifferent to their content. (104)”

— Michael Greenberg

“It is really interesting to notice that the people that suffer the most with mental problems are also the ones who resist receiving therapy…

— Robin Sacredfire

“For so many reasons, this approach to mental health has to change.”

— Bryony Gordon

“If people were not by nature insane and resistant to self-improvement or therapy,”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“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

“Mental illness is not in the business of making sense of itself.”

— Roni Askey-Doran

“That the other suffers has to be learned; and it can never be learned fully.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Jon Ronson

“If people could just understand how it actually felt to be depressed, obsessed, frightened, out of control, maybe they’d be more tolerant, more understanding.”

— Victoria Leatham

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

— Shannon L. Alder

“Mental health is not the absence of struggle, but the presence of strength in managing it.”

— Wayne Chirisa

“Age, mental illness, and failure are all in the mind. They put the pain there to let you know it hurts.”

— David Holmes