Quotes and Sayings About Mental Illness
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One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
-- Alastair Campbell -
The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
-- Alexander Pope -
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 -
Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.
-- Anna Castillo -
It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
-- Ashley Montagu -
I just felt as though I would never be happy again, and as if I had fallen into a big black hole.
-- Brooke Shields -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!
-- Eric Jerome Dickey -
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them
-- Francis Parker Yockey -
I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
-- Gail Porter -
It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression.
-- Gail Porter -
... it is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person.
-- George Howe Colt -
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 -
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 -
I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness
-- Glenn Close -
When you're depressed, everything becomes distorted.
-- Graeme Obree -
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 -
I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
-- Irving Stone -
I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive.
-- James Dean Bradfield -
My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.
-- Jane Pauley -
A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
-- Jane Pauley -
The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity.
-- John Astin -
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
-- John Dryden -
I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.
-- John Steinbeck