Best 923 quotes in «mental illness quotes» category

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.

Don't go to bed with any woman crazier than you are.

A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.

Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.

Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices.

I'll be the in to your sane.

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.

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.

I have a plan-to go mad.

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.

I find human behavior to be fascinating, which is probably why I'm an actor, and I think that there are a lot of dangerous misconceptions about mental illness in our society, and I would like to be a part of remedying that - particularly the stigma that surrounds so many mental illnesses.

In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.

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

Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist.

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

It all made sense - terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of partial knowledge. And now the torment of partly knowing had yielded to the infinitely greater terror of knowing precisely

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.

It's enough just to speak when spoken to, to give some minimal reaction to a stimulus. But to actually be the stimulus doesn't even occur to me.

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

It's great to be young and insane.

It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.

I was a psycho woman. It felt like something in me that I had no control over.

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

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

I was just sort of moving through time.

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.

Maybe I'm a bit of a psycho-but I'd rather be psycho than boring.

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.

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

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.

Mental illness is by far the most misunderstood, and stigmatized, of all afflictions. Statistically, one in three families in the U.S. deals with mental illness, and yet it's rarely discussed in the open. It's time for that to change.

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

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

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

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

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

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

Moods should be heard but never danced to.

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.

My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us.

Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.

Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it.

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.

... now I was safe, now I was really crazy, and nobody could take me out of there.

Pictures help you to form the mental mold.

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.

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

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

People with what we call mental illness can indeed serve well, and people who have no discernible mental illness - and that may be true of Trump - may not be able to serve, may be quite unfit. So it isn't always the question of a psychiatric diagnosis. It's really a question of what psychological and other traits render one unfit or dangerous.

Something small and quiet, like a match being struck, lights up the gloom inside of me.