Quotes and Sayings About Mental Illness

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
-- Alastair Campbell

#People #Four #Mental Illness

The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
-- Alexander Pope

#Mind #Mental Illness #Finest

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.
-- Amy Tan

#Depression #Use #Mental Illness

Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.
-- Anna Castillo

#Insane #Mental Health #Mental Illness

It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant

#Depression #Responsibility #Mental Illness

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

#Systematic #Mental Illness #Institutions

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

#Black #Mental Illness #Holes

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.
-- Camille Paglia

#Self #Mental Health #Mental Illness

So, because I have a mental illness I should disappear and hide? Ever since I went into hospital, all I have heard and read about is people telling me what they think I should do.
-- Charlotte Dawson

#Thinking #People #Mental Illness

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

#Depression #Mental Illness #Psychotic

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.
-- Elyn Saks

#Lying #Mental Illness #Fortune

love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!
-- Eric Jerome Dickey

#Love Is #Mental Illness #Disorder

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them
-- Francis Parker Yockey

#Facts #Mental Illness #Illness

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
-- Gail Porter

#Want #Mental Health #Mental Illness

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

#Years #Half #Mental Illness

... it is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person.
-- George Howe Colt

#Beautiful #Depression #Mental Illness

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.
-- George Michael

#Believe #Mental Illness #Illness

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
-- Glenn Close

#Topics #Speak #Mental Illness

I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness
-- Glenn Close

#Thinking #Vocabulary #Mental Illness

When you're depressed, everything becomes distorted.
-- Graeme Obree

#Mental Illness #Illness

Nothing more isolating than a mental illness.
-- Hannibal

#Mental Illness #Illness

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.
-- Hilary Mantel

#Medical #Mental Illness #Artefacts

Moods should be heard but never danced to.
-- Hugh Prather

#Depression #Mental Illness #Mood

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

#Book #Mental Illness #Illness

I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive.
-- James Dean Bradfield

#Mental Illness #Miserable #Aggressive

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

#Cancer #Goal #Mental Illness

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
-- Jane Pauley

#Diagnosis #Mental Illness #Shame

The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity.
-- John Astin

#World #Normal #Mental Illness

There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
-- John Dryden

#Depression #Mad #Mental Illness

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.
-- John Steinbeck

#Depression #Self #Mental Illness