quotes 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 CampbellSource : "Bipolar disorder doesn't just affect film stars" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.
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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 -
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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 MontaguSource : "The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson",
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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 -
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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 SaksSource : Elyn R. Saks (2007). “The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness”, p.425, Hachette UK
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love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!
-- Eric Jerome Dickey -
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To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them
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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 ColtSource : George Howe Colt (2006). “November of the Soul: The Enigma of Suicide”, p.220, Simon and Schuster
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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 CloseSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness
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When you're depressed, everything becomes distorted.
-- Graeme Obree -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else.
-- Judith Guest -
Maybe I'm a bit of a psycho-but I'd rather be psycho than boring.
-- Julie Delpy -
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The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.
-- Juliette Lewis -
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
-- Karl KrausSource : Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”
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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.
-- Kate Cann -
I was a psycho woman. It felt like something in me that I had no control over.
-- Katie Price -
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You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.
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Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
You get such a kick and then it's all over. That's good ground for uncertainty and depression. I usually burst into tears.
-- Kylie Minogue -
A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.
-- Luis BunuelSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.
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People get really irritated by mental illness.
-- Maria BamfordSource : "Stand-up Comedy and Mental Illness: A Conversation with Maria Bamford". Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. May 10, 2012.
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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.
-- Mark VonnegutSource : Giorgio Vasari, George Bull (1978). “Artists of the Renaissance: a selection from Lives of the artists”, Viking Pr
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Well, I thought, last night I paid my dues. I faced death. Now I can stay.
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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.
-- Mark VonnegutSource : Mark Vonnegut, M.D. (2010). “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir”, p.124, Delacorte Press
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You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one.
-- Marsha M. Linehan -
The people I know who suffer from mental illness, sometimes they do connect you to what it is to be really human. There's a vulnerability there, there's something very potent.
-- Maya ForbesSource : Source: collider.com
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Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was quite severe, leaving me deeply unhappy and frightened.
-- Melvyn Bragg -
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
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There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.
-- Octave MirbeauSource : Octave Mirbeau (1997). “Torture Garden”, Dedalus Limited
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... I went through a very lethargic period ... I was just sort of getting through every night and every day.
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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.
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Writing my blog has saved me thousands on therapy.
-- Phil CookeSource : Phil Cooke (2012). “One Big Thing: Discovering What You Were Born to Do”, p.109, Thomas Nelson Inc
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I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse.
-- Robbie Williams -
Pictures help you to form the mental mold.
-- Robert Collier -
I believe in such a thing called mental illness that leads to some evil.
-- Robert Jeffress -
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Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.
-- Robert Smithson -
A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion.
-- Robert Todd Carroll -
Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.
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Love is mental illness going in and mental illness coming out. In between, you do a lot of laundry.
-- Steve Lopez -
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Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.
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All of us are crazy in one or another way.
-- Theodore Isaac Rubin -
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?
-- Tipper Gore -
Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it.
-- Uma Thurman -
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For years now, I've been talking about the rise of the extreme right in the U.S. Since 9/11, white nationalists have killed more Americans on U.S. soil than any foreign or domestic terrorist group combined. It's something we don't categorize as terrorism or extremism. We often brush it off as mental illness - things like Oak Creek Wisconsin - and these people are certainly tied to white supremacy, have written manifestos. We've got a major problem in not calling that terrorism.
-- Christian PiccioliniSource : Source: chicagoist.com
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Every pore of you is crying and you don't even understand why or what. I actually kind of died and got born again as a result of taking the meds and having a chance to, you know, build a life.
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It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed or cliché.
-- Brian Lindstrom -
I think that most of us instinctively avoid people with mental illness.
-- Brian Lindstrom -
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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.
-- Rosalynn CarterSource : "Rosalynn Carter: Advocate for the mentally ill". Interview with Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. August 11, 2010.
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Tis a mad world, my masters.
-- John TaylorSource : John Taylor (1999). “Travels Through Stuart Britain: The Adventures of John Taylor, the Water Poet”, Sutton Pub Limited
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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.
-- Kate Cann