Mental Disorder Quotes

Mental Disorder Quote of the day

Extreme liberalism is not a political philosophy. It is a mental disorder.

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

Golf is a mental disorder.

If you're spending so much time at the gym that your mail is forwarded there, you're not dedicated - you've got a mental disorder.

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.

Love is a severe mental disorder.

Homosexuality is a mental disorder that can be cured through counselling.

There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental disorder.

There is no definition of a mental disorder. It's bullshit. I mean, you just can't define it.

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition in what might be termed a flash of divine enlightenment.

You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.

We got through it. Haven made excuses for me to friends, and made an appointment with a terrific doctor, who put me on Effexor, 150 milligrams a day, enough to get my brain straightened out.

Dissociation is characterized by a disruption of usually integrated functions of memory, consciousness, identity, or perception of the environment.

The creature who lives inside my brain suggested I do it, ” I offered tentatively. “It was very convincing.

Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.

She fails to see who I am, even, for her eyes do not, will not, take me in. Instead they transmit a powerful message. She is like a billboard flashing, starkly: 'Keep Out'.

The country is not growing because the mental state of the people are retarded

Psychos are in uniform circulation in society.

Don’t tell me you have OCD about this?”“OCD, ADHD—pretty sure if they come up with some new acronym tomorrow I’d have it.

She was so shattered about what kind of man he was -- brutal, tender, passionate. There was little doubt he had some mental disorder.

I'm Bipolar with PTSD there's no shortage of pain inside of me

They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.

Jail has become the biggest mental health hospital.

Dissociative Disorders have a high rate of responsiveness to therapy and that with proper treatment, their prognosis is quite good.

It is not unusual for subjects diagnosed with a Dissociative Disorder on the SCID-D to be surprised at having their symptoms validated by a clinician who understands the nature of their disorder.

Denial and minimizing is often seen in genuine PTSD and, hence, should be a target of detection and measurement.

Police intentionally murdering a mentally unstable person will always be unacceptable when there are numerous other non-lethal options available to them.

The central mechanism of the avoidance mechanism of PTSD is the ego defense of denial

Many people with Dissociative Disorders are very creative and used their creative capacities to help them cope with childhood trauma.p55

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

Self Hate: The deadliest 'dis-ease' experienced by wounded souls.

I had people saying 'it's all in your head'. Do you honestly think I want to feel this way?

Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know.

The most common emotional defense is avoidance (an ineffective coping skill for any stressor) as expressed through denial (e.g., "That wasn't really bad, I barely remember it").

The primary treatment modality for DID is individual outpatient psychotherapy.Guidelines for Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults, Third Revision

The unique stigma of PTSD. The stigma of PTSD remains one of the most formidable barriers to effective care.

I think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago.

It felt like this was never going to end. The world wasn't going to stop crashing down until there was nothing left of me but dust.

I have schizophrenia. I am not schizophrenia. I am not my mental illness. My illness is a part of me.

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness.