Best 923 quotes in «mental illness quotes» category

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 The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of partial knowledge.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 is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I was just sort of moving through time.

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

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

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

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

Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.

Moods should be heard but never danced to.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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.