Illness Quotes
Illness Quote of the day
Thirty seconds of pure awareness is a long time, especially after a lifetime of escaping yourself at all costs.
I need them to be aware and present with me in the midst of the storm, not just tell me what to do.
An inner ease spreads inside me. Such is the power of acceptance and understanding from other people, the power of validation
Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
I'm so good at beginnings, but in the end I always seem to destroy everything, including myself.
You can live to be old or young, but you'll always have moments when you lose your head.
Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life.
Until you have stood in another woman’s stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them in.
The central mechanism of the avoidance mechanism of PTSD is the ego defense of denial
PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free.
The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.
I’m afraid to see a psychiatrist about the voices in my head. She might know who they are.
It's normal to shy away from illness and death. It's natural to gravitate toward laughter and life.
As a resident, my highest ideal was not saving lives -- everyone dies eventually -- but guiding a patient or family to an understanding of death or illness.
Genius by birth, Bipolar by design
In retrospect, crappy chemicals in my brain were working overtime, driving me to destroy myself, like that thing that makes lemmings throw them¬selves over a cliff.
I amBroken single motherDisconnected loverSlow motion dresserDark secret confessorWhite flag trendProfessional dead end
The voices in my head that tell the other voices what to do are mean.
To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious.
After my first few tastes I was pretty much hooked. I'd have dry spells, months without any or only piddling amounts of grace, but I never forgot about it or stopped wanting it.
Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.
With all due respect to my surgeon, in a perfect world he would be out of a job.
If you're selfish enough to kill yourself write your suicide note on the back of your will
There will always be people afraid of the monsters in the night. They are usually the ones that look for them because they have proven they exist in themselves.
Ache my bones, flame my muscles, tingle my nerves, but you will never taint my beautiful mind & I will overcome this condition with the belief that I already have. - CRPS AWARENESS -
We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.
The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.
A Miracle is nothing more, than the removal of an Illusion".
I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.
This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.
Suffering is so real & I walk amongst so many who have no idea how much my soul is aching to be healed.
Have you ever suddenly realized it's someone else's mood swing and you're just along for the ride?
Prideful fool. It hurt his feelings that he couldn’t make my crazy go away. You know how men are. Always trying to fix things can’t be fixed.
Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know.
You have a responsibility to keep your homes, surroundings and city clean.
The unique stigma of PTSD. The stigma of PTSD remains one of the most formidable barriers to effective care.
There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.
God only knew what ran underneath the fierce self-discipline and emotional control that had come with my upbringing. But the cracks were there, I knew it, and they frightened me.
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are a subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who has suffered from insomnia.
I believe that for every illness or ailment known to man, that God has a plant out here that will heal it. We just need to keep discovering the properties for natural healing.
