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The one thing that we need to escape is our minds, but our minds are the one thing that we cannot escape from. — Anonymous

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

Preaching a man a sermon with a broken head and telling him to be right with God is equal to telling a man with a broken leg to get up and run a race. — Richard Baxter

Can you admit on here that you have an affliction for millions of other people to see? Then that is great and a huge step towards your recovery. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb ... — Sylvia Plath

Breathe. Relax. This too shall pass. — Lee Horbachewski

Happiness is not a reward. It's a consequence. You have to work at it every day. — Norah Vincent

Depression is real. It happens. We go through it. Hold onto yourself in those moments. — Avijeet Das

If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling. — Tamara Ireland Stone

The first time I saw her,
Everything in my head went quiet. — Neil Hilborn

She can't worry. She can't 'fix.' She can't love. — Shannon Mullen

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

Depression is our way of telling ourselves that something is seriously wrong and needs working through and changing. — Neel Burton

Light existed all along. Of course it did. Who says it didn't because I couldn't see it? — Gillian Marchenko

Too often the mentally ill are marginalized as people who just can't pull up their socks. If only it were that simple. — Suzanne F. Kingsmill

I think I might be bi-polar. It's not normal to be this emotionally unstable. — Michelle N. Onuorah

We mistake our mistakes as being damaged. — Taylor Swift

He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression. — Jasmine Warga

It was an oddly satisfying idea to feel bereft as I left my mother this time. We only feel bereft when we're deprived of something meaningful. — Laura Anderson Kurk

Show me what you've written, I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it. — Osamu Dazai

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. — Amy Tan

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

Mental illness is not in the business of making sense of itself. — Roni Askey-Doran

Waking up breaks my heart.
Getting dressed breaks my arms.
Joining the crowd breaks my legs.
Letting someone in ... does me in. — Casey Renee Kiser

It felt like this was never going to end. The world wasn't going to stop crashing down until there was nothing left of me but dust. — Keary Taylor

I used my mental illness as a springboard to the rest of my life. — Clive Culverhouse

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it. — Osamu Dazai

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

Smiles are a funny thing
and laughter is hilarious.
I smile sometimes
when I am delirious. — Casey Renee Kiser

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

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating. — Neel Burton

I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.
I don't want it to win. — Jasmine Warga

Depression is a phobia of happiness. — Jack Deveny

I have a plan-to go mad. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

I will be stronger than my sadness. — Jasmine Warga

You are a warrior in a dark forest, with no compass and are unable to tell who the actual enemy is, So you never feel safe .. — Anonymous

What happened? Who killed me? — Gwyneth Lewis

I used mental illness as a springboard to rest of my life. — Clive Culverhouse

Who am I fooling? Bad dreams never end. We just pretend they aren't there. — Shannon Mullen

I graciously survived depression, mental-illness and attempt of suicide. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I do not crave anyone that will fix me. Just someone who will hold my hand while I fix myself. — Unknown

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

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

It is in my head! That's why it's called Mental Illness. — Roni Askey-Doran

Can you revive wilted tulips? — Shannon Mullen

Have I gone mad like Anne and no one has the heart to tell me? I wish someone would tell me, I feel crazy enough though. — Suzanne Collins

Many call it the 1000 yard stare and can't realize the pain when PTSD takes us there — Stanley Victor Paskavich

My pillow is as good as any ocean
to drown in the nightmare of myself.
I swam all the way here from the moon. — Casey Renee Kiser

It's so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse. — Ruby Wax

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

I will find a way out or make one. — Robert Peary

When you have mental illness it's common to be shunned by your family or friends it wouldn't happen if they knew the pain you were in. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

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

I have to keep reminding myself
this is not me. It is chemistry. It is biology. It is not who I am. — David Levithan

I needed some space to lay myself out, so that I could decide which pieces I wanted to pick up. — Fennel Hudson

Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time. — Stephanie S. Tolan

Prideful fool. It hurt his feelings that he couldn't make my crazy go away. You know how men are. Always trying to fix things can't be fixed. — Ken Wheaton

It's great to be young and insane. — Michael Keaton

When it comes to mental illness most of the diagnoses are similar or the same yet they can never display how we individually go through our pain. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Starving artist: starving for affection, starving for attention — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

The depressed person is mired in the past; the manic person is obsessed with the future. Both destroy the present in the process. — S. Nassir Ghaemi

He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost. — Osamu Dazai

Except you cannot outrun insanity, anymore than you can outrun your own shadow. — Alyssa Reyans

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

A Depressive?'
'Smiles in ballrooms, weeps in bedrooms. Ill in her head.' Olive tapped her temple. 'And here.' She touched her heart. — Jessie Burton

My heart is sinking and my chest physically aches from the heavy sadness that it carries within. — Shannon Perry

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

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

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

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

I finally understood what could drive kids to show up with guns and shoot up their schools. — Nenia Campbell

It is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person. — George Howe Colt

So far gone am I in the dark side of earth, that its other side, the theoretic bright one, seems but uncertain twilight to me. — Herman Melville

Moods should be heard but never danced to. — Hugh Prather

I wanted to be dead. No. That's not quite right. I didn't want to be dead, I just didn't want to be alive. — Matt Haig

Mental illness, depression, was indeed an illness with a physiological basis. It wasn't a sign of failure. I wasn't a failure. — Rachel Reiland

When had I stopped being a person with Paranoid Schizophrenia, and become a Paranoid Schizophrenic; defined by my illness? — Michaela Haze