Mental Illness Quotations

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

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.

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 want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.

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.

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them

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

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

My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.

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

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

There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.

Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.

Pictures help you to form the mental mold.

I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error.

There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.

Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just another form of love.

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

It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.

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

I just felt as though I would never be happy again, and as if I had fallen into a big black hole.

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

The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.

Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.

Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness.

I see myself as one would see another. I have been cut in two.

I don't suffer from a mental illness, I live with it.

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.

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression.

I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.

It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.

I have a plan-to go mad.

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

Moods should be heard but never danced to.

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

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness

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

Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else.

You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.

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

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

People get really irritated by mental illness.

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.

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.

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

Any breakdown is a breakthrough.

Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.

Everywhere I looked life seemed to be full of problems and they were just going to go on and on. It was never going to get any better.

It's great to be young and insane.

Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.

You're never too old to be crazy.

All of us are crazy in one or another way.

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.

Tis a mad world, my masters.

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.

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

There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.

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

My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.

And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.

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

Forty percent of the people who are being treated for mental illness are not addressing the physical body.

I want to destigmatize the words mental illness.

I take medication every day for mental illness and depression and don't feel bad about it.

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

... 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.

One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.

You get such a kick and then it's all over. That's good ground for uncertainty and depression. I usually burst into tears.

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.

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.

I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse.

... I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb ...

Love is mental illness going in and mental illness coming out. In between, you do a lot of laundry.

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

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

I believe in such a thing called mental illness that leads to some evil.

Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence.

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.

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

The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.

Love is a grave mental illness.

I cling to nowhere until I fall - the crash of Nothing...

The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And why is it?