Quotes about Mental Illness

It is in my head! That's why it's called Mental Illness. Votes: 3

I admit I have Mental Illness so please no more 'Fruit Cakes' for Christmas Please Votes: 3

In the terms of 'Mental Illness' Isn't stable a place they put horses that wish to run free? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

It's great to be young and insane. Votes: 2

People get really irritated by mental illness. Votes: 2

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. Votes: 2

Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions. Votes: 2

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. Votes: 2

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. Votes: 2

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. Votes: 2

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. Votes: 2

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. Votes: 2

I think love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America. Votes: 2

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them. Votes: 2

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Votes: 2

Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else. Votes: 2

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place. Votes: 2

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness. Votes: 2

You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane. Votes: 2

I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write ... Votes: 2

Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness. Votes: 2

I don't know why I feel so crazy...I feel like I'm going through a stargate. Maybe it's the diet pills. Maybe it's Buddha. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. Votes: 2

I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure. Votes: 2

We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date. Votes: 2

What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is radically estranged from the structure of being ... Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better. Votes: 2

And people get so weird about mental illness, you follow the rules! You don't up a heart patient on a roller coaster, you don't put a mental patient on a hunting trip with you! Votes: 2

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. Votes: 2

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. Votes: 2

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life. Votes: 2

I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I'm not in the position. Votes: 2

The madhouse is in a lot of places, not just a hospital, not just a palace, but also a pattern woven from threads so fine that no one can distinguish them, neither the Emperor nor the children, neither you nor I. Votes: 2

People with mental health problems are almost never dangerous. In fact, they are more likely to be the victims than the perpetrators. At the same time, mental illness has been the common denominator in one act of mass violence after another. Votes: 2

The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about. Votes: 2

I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment. Votes: 2

Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up. Votes: 2

I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering. Votes: 2

Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while we'll lose our minds even earlier than we had expected. Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times. Votes: 2

They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present. Votes: 2

The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier. Votes: 2

Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of someone homeless. 'Look at that guy - he's crazy. He looks dangerous.' Well, he's on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home. Votes: 2

One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you're sad. Votes: 2

While there are many experts in the psychoanalysis of individuals, there seems to be little active authority or understanding in the matter of the persistent shared madness in everyday life. It's as if collective mental illness doesn't exist except in the vernacular and in contemporary folk myth, where it remains trapped and politically useless. Votes: 2

I think Hell exists on Earth. It's a psychological state, or it can be a physical state. People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell. I think there are all kinds of different hells. It's not a place you go to after you die. Votes: 2

His impression was that he had been imprisoned in a shelter deep down in the underworld of his personality, listening and biding his time while insanity rushed like spring flood through the upper layer of his soul, roaring and crashing, leaving terrible destruction in its wake, a deserted, ravaged country. No, he hadn't been crazy, but something inside him had been crazy. Votes: 2

Love is a grave mental illness. Votes: 0

Nothing more isolating than a mental illness. Votes: 0

I want to destigmatize the words mental illness. Votes: 0

I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error. Votes: 0

I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error." Votes: 0

love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized! Votes: 0

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure Votes: 0

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. Votes: 0

There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness. Votes: 0

I don't suffer from a mental illness, I live with it. Votes: 0

My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer. Votes: 0

Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness. Votes: 0

Mental illness is not in the business of making sense of itself. Votes: 0

I think that most of us instinctively avoid people with mental illness. Votes: 0

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book. Votes: 0

The vast majority of people who have mental illness problems never hurt anybody. Votes: 0

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering. Votes: 0

Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two. Votes: 0

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness. Votes: 0

Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness. Votes: 0

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness. Votes: 0

I believe in such a thing called mental illness that leads to some evil. Votes: 0

Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy. Votes: 0

I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me. Votes: 0

Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent Votes: 0

I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up. Votes: 0

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all. Votes: 0

Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence. Votes: 0

I take medication every day for mental illness and depression and don't feel bad about it. Votes: 0

We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings'. Votes: 0

I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness Votes: 0

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. Votes: 0

Why do they always prescribe thyroid medicine to go with the mental illness cocktails they whip up? Votes: 0

People accuse me of glamorizing mental illness. Looking back sometimes, that's true. But I don't feel guilty. Votes: 0

We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.' Votes: 0

Forty percent of the people who are being treated for mental illness are not addressing the physical body. Votes: 0

Never give up on someone with a mental illness. When "I" is replaced by "We", illness becomes wellness. Votes: 0

I think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago. Votes: 0

Love is mental illness going in and mental illness coming out. In between, you do a lot of laundry. Votes: 0

One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness. Votes: 0

Mental illness and creativity are - it's a thin line in between the two. I tend to believe that. Votes: 0

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness. Votes: 0

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people. Votes: 0

Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism. Votes: 0

The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice. Votes: 0

I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness. Votes: 0

It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know? Votes: 0

If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well. Votes: 0

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces. Votes: 0

Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person. Votes: 0

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness Votes: 0

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them. Votes: 0

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them Votes: 0

Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes. Votes: 0

For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away. Votes: 0

What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist? Votes: 0

For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away. Votes: 0

Lets try to come to a place of compassion about mental illness, in all its forms, and help each other find healing. Votes: 0

Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill. Votes: 0

Staying for your children is noble. However, staying with someone that teaches your children that selective evilness is okay is mental illness. Votes: 0

While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me. Votes: 0

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness. Votes: 0

A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion. Votes: 0

I've accepted the fact I have mental illness but when my imaginary friends start calling me crazy that's where I draw the line Votes: 0

Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses. Votes: 0

Physically, I'm healthy as a horse, always held up. But in the mental illness department, I got my share. It's just what I got. Votes: 0

The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings. Votes: 0

Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes. Votes: 0

Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations. Votes: 0

When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I'm talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I'm not talking about mental illness. Votes: 0

Progression and regression go hand in hand with mental health. It is a tough illness. You often take one step forward and ten steps back. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis. Votes: 0

Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't like the term 'mental illness.' I'd rather just say 'mad.' Just like I always say 'loony bin,' not 'mental hospital.' Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We shall therefore compare the concept of homosexuality as heresy, prevalent in the days of the witch-hunts, with the concept of homosexuality as mental illness, prevalent today. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious and are of infinite value. Votes: 0

Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors. Votes: 0

Disability has become a form of permanent welfare for a lot of folks. It's not that hard to prove a mental illness or mental issues or pain issues. Votes: 0

[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions. Votes: 0

The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW. Votes: 0

If we are to believe the evidence from clinical trials there are many effective pharmacological and psychological treatments for mental illness. Epidemiological data, on the other hand, says otherwise. Votes: 0

Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or private hospital beds, there are few options. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I'm imitating the mentally ill. Votes: 0

We have to get the word out that mental illnesses can be diagnosed and treated, and almost everyone suffering from mental illness can live meaningful lives in their communities. Votes: 0

Whether it's someone struggling with mental illness, someone struggling with poverty or struggling with their own limitations in their social behaviors, for some reason, I'm drawn to characters like that. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Finding a calm place inside myself through meditation kind of helped me to get over a lot of mental illness ... it's just been a really great thing in my life. Votes: 0

My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting a very private, solitary battle with mental illness. Votes: 0

In the 1830s, Dorothea Dix revolutionized the care of people with mental illness by taking them out of jails and caring for them in asylums, later known as state hospitals. Votes: 0

Mental illness" is among the most stigmatized of categories.' People are ashamed of being mentally ill. They fear disclosing their condition to their friends and confidants-and certainly to their employers. Votes: 0

Mental illness was a family secret. This patient had four children grow up in foster homes, and they never knew her. It was heart-wrenching for her granddaughter to find this out. Votes: 0

As special as it is to listen to your friends argue over whether or not you have a mental illness,I'm starting to get the urge to go back to class. Votes: 0

The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again play a decisive role in many suicides Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best for them. And it seems so hard, and it's frustrating. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better. Votes: 0

Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive. Votes: 0

These Jews who run things, who are producing this mental illness ­­teenage suicide...all these Jewish sicknesses...that's nothing new. The Talmud's full of things like sex with boys and girls. Votes: 0

Every time the DSM prepares for a new edition, there are countless groups lobbying to get their particular mental illness recognized by the diagnostic manual. Surely, this is a social and cultural phenomenon. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I wasn't big in the party scene but I did have an excessive lifestyle. I had much more than I needed. I think that was a manifestation of a certain kind of mental illness. Votes: 0

Mental illness doesn't choose the most talented or the smartest or the richest or the poorest. It shows no mercy and often arrives like an unexpected storm, dropping an endless downpour on young dreams. Votes: 0

I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood. Votes: 0