Mental Illness Quotes

Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.

I have a plan-to go mad.

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.

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

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.

I hear they feed you in Sing Sing,” Evie muttered. “Three squares a day.” “Evangeline,” Will said with a sigh. “Charity begins at home.” “So does mental illness.

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.

You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.

Lets try to come to a place of compassion about mental illness, in all its forms, and help each other find healing.

I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

I was just sort of moving through time.

Tis a mad world, my masters.

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.

I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.

It's great to be young and insane.

I just felt as though I would never be happy again, and as if I had fallen into a big black hole.

It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.

Mental illness, of course, is not literally a "thing" - or physical object - and hence it can "exist" only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist.

People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.

Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.

Any breakdown is a breakthrough.

It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression.

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk about it.

... I went through a very lethargic period ... I was just sort of getting through every night and every day.

Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic.

When you're depressed, everything becomes distorted.

Love is mental illness going in and mental illness coming out. In between, you do a lot of laundry.

There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.

Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.

The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice.

It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again.

I have come to realize that an early symptom of approaching mental illness is the belief that one's work is terribly important. If you consider your work very important you should take a day off.

It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know?

As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of the richest learning and humanizing experiences life offers.

While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness.

My brain sometimes departs from the agreed-upon reality, and my private reality is a very lonely place. But in the end, I'm not sure I wish I'd never gone there.

...men aren't in touch with their emotions, and don't share enough [?]

I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life.

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

The scariest thing of all is never knowing what you're suddenly going to believe.

As no one knew much about my mental illness, a lot of people had the attitude that I had the capability to 'kick it' and get better instantly. This was the most frustrating attitude for me.

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.

Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love.

What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam.

Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free—albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe.