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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.

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

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

Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I have a plan-to go mad.

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'll be the in to your sane.

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 The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of partial knowledge.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.

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

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

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

It's great to be young and insane.

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

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

I was just sort of moving through time.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

Moods should be heard but never danced to.

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

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.

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

Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.

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.

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.

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

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.

Pictures help you to form the mental mold.

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

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

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