Mental Illness Quotes
A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion.
We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.
There should be no more shame in acknowledging (mental illness) than in acknowledging a battle with high blood pressure or the sudden appearance of a malignant tumor.
Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.
This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness
Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them
I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.
Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.
The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.
One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.
The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them.
I love being from a screwed up family. We have everything in my family: prescription drug abuse, mental illness, one of my uncles is a Mormon.
The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.
I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
It is a technique ideally suited to prevent physical and mental illness and to protect the body generally, developing an inevitable sense of self-reliance and assurance.
One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
You get such a kick and then it's all over. That's good ground for uncertainty and depression. I usually burst into tears.
It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental illness than acting excellence.
It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.
Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.
We know that mental illness is not something that happens to other people. It touches us all. Why then is mental illness met with so much misunderstanding and fear?
You can have a disordered relationship with food, but to have an eating disorder is indicative of a mental illness, which I think needs treatment and recognition in a different way.
Mental illness and creativity are - it's a thin line in between the two. I tend to believe that.
In the same way that we want to expand mental health service for people with mental illness, we also need to make sure that our police officers are getting the mental health help they need.
With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that go from being too important to being not important at all.
What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
