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    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.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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

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

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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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    Moods should be heard but never danced to.

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

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

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    Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.

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

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

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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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Pictures help you to form the mental mold.

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

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

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

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    Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

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

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

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    The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

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

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    The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any rest.

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

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

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    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?

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    Well, I thought, last night I paid my dues. I faced death. Now I can stay.

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

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    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.

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    What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?

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    What we're seeing at the moment is people being radicalised or adopting Islamist, murderous Islamist ideology very, very quickly so that you have people that are not on the counterterrorism radar screen who then often, as a result of mental illness, will then attach themselves to this murderous ideology and then act very quickly.

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    When I was sectioned for six months, that was one of the worst experiences of my life, not being able to go out and have freedom. Having experienced it, it's almost inexplicably awful.

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    When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was.

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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.

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    With depression, you can go in and out of it and not really know whether it's still there or not. Sometimes I'd find myself bursting into tears for no reason.

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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.

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    Writing my blog has saved me thousands on therapy.

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    You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you.

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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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    You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

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    You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head.

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    You're never too old to be crazy.

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    1 in 5 people have dandruff. 1 in 4 people have mental health problems. I've had both.

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    Accepting a psychiatric diagnosis is like a religious conversion. It's an adjustment in cosmology, with all its accompanying high priests, sacred texts, and stories of religion. And I am, for better or worse, an instant convert.

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    According to Hoge and colleagues (2007), the key to reducing stigma is to present mental health care as a routine aspect of health care, similar to getting a check up or an X-ray. Soldiers need to understand that stress reactions-difficulty sleeping, reliving incidents in your mind, and emotional detachment-are common and expected after combat... The soldier should be told that wherever they go, they should remember that what they're feeling is "normal and it's nothing to be ashamed of.

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    A chorus of voices exhorts kids to study science. No one stops to ask whether it is inhumane to force adolescents to spend the bulk of their time studying subjects most of them hate. When skilled workers are put out of a job by technical advances and have to undergo “retraining,” no one asks whether it is humiliating for them to be pushed around in this way. It is simply taken for granted that everyone must bow to technical necessity, and for good reason: If human needs were put before technical necessity there would be economic problems, unemployment, shortages or worse. The concept of “mental health” in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress.

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    Adam returned his gaze to the cross. The Jesus was hurting. Guilt simmered and then boiled in him. Jesus had a whole world of suffering and horror to worry about and here Adam was in all his punk puniness. He didn't want to add to Jesus's burdens, but... 'Sorry about that. Look, I know you're busy and I don't want to get greedy with your time, but still, if you could just help me... If you could find a minute, please, please, please, dear sweet Jesus, fix me.