Best 923 quotes in «mental illness quotes» category

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

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

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.

It's great to be young and insane.

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

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 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.

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

I was just sort of moving through time.

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

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

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

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 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.

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 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.

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

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

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

Moods should be heard but never danced to.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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