Mental Illness Quotes

Mental Illness Quote of the day

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

Nothing more isolating than a mental illness.

You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement.

My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.

When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.

Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses.

I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.

Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.

The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings.

There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.

I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious and are of infinite value.

For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away.

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

Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?

I will find a way out or make one.

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

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

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.

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.

If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.

I don't suffer from a mental illness, I live with it.

Early diagnosis is so important because the earlier a mental illness can be detected, diagnosed and treatment can begin, the better off that person can be for the rest of his or her life.

Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.

We have to get the word out that mental illnesses can be diagnosed and treated, and almost everyone suffering from mental illness can live meaningful lives in their communities.

I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

Mental illness was a family secret. This patient had four children grow up in foster homes, and they never knew her. It was heart-wrenching for her granddaughter to find this out.

That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

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

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.

Everywhere I looked life seemed to be full of problems and they were just going to go on and on. It was never going to get any better.

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day you die. I am trying so hard to break mine, but it is not easy. It is my toughest fight ever.

I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive.

I'll be the in to your sane.

I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse.

There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.