Mental Health Illness Quotes
Collection of top 74 famous quotes about Mental Health Illness
Mental Health Illness Quotes & Sayings
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Mental health is usually the last place people go when they think about someone being sick.
— Louise Gornall
Breathe. Relax. This too shall pass.
— Lee Horbachewski
I have a mental illness, but that doesn't stop me from being mentally capable.
— Lisa M. Cronkhite
I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.
— Mira Bartok
A panic attack is pathological exaggeration of the body's normal response to fear, stress or excitement.
— Abhijit Naskar
We have a mental health system that is dominated by political and hidden forces that keep us stagnated and unable to see real, lasting change.
— Tamara Hill
We all have problems, but let's not kid ourselves: it's how we deal with them that makes the difference.
— Jonathan Harnisch
Depression is our way of telling ourselves that something is seriously wrong and needs working through and changing.
— Neel Burton
The presuming social view that mental health is not as serious as the media says it is, blocks progress. This too is political.
— Tamara Hill
People with OCD including myself, realize that their seemingly uncontrollable behavior is irrational, but they feel unable to stop it.
— Abhijit Naskar
My therapist told me that I over-analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this because of his unhappy relationship with his mother.
— Michel Templet
My skin is so thin that the innocent words of others burn holes right through me.
— BPD Pieces Of Me Community
Jail has become the biggest mental health hospital.
— Steven Magee
He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
a manual for how to build a mentally ill child
— David Foster Wallace
Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.
— Elyn R. Saks
The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.
— Stefan Molyneux
This was a characteroloical prelude, but it wasn't chemical or somatic. It was the anatomy of melancholy, not the anatomy of his brain.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.
— Hippocrates
Wondering is a positive madness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Thing was, after the hurricane, life went on. You had to buy milk, fix the broken windows, play some Warhammer, discuss some girls. Wow!
— Teresa Toten
Unfortunately, mental health is so misunderstood that some people think you have to be crazy to need to speak to a therapist.
— Nicole Curtis
While a psychiatric diagnosis can serve a purpose in treatment plans, it should not become a tool to discredit a person's disclosure of abuse.
— Lee Ann Hoff
The medication given during mental-ill health makes you rather weaker in body, in soul and in spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.
— Julian Seifter
The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!
— Patrick W. Corrigan
But, darling, I need you to know, you loving me will not heal me. Please realize, I already know that. And I do not expect it to.
— R. YS Perez
Thoughts. Thoughts bombard my head, my brain. My psyche
— Jonathan Harnisch
This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.
— Ruby Wax
John raised an eyebrow. "So you wouldn't date someone like you?"
"Oh, hell, no. I'm insane, but that would be nuts. — Forrest Carr
"Oh, hell, no. I'm insane, but that would be nuts. — Forrest Carr
Sanity is over-rated. It lacks color.
— Forrest Carr
Recovery is not so much a dream at it is a plan.
— Carolyn Spring
Been under treatment for PTSD and bipolar since 1992. I'm not ashamed of my illness. I've been shunned by many and I feel for those shunned, too.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
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
What happened? Who killed me?
— Gwyneth Lewis
Once-upon-a-time we buried the memories we didn't want.
— Nathan Filer
One began by finding mental illness mystifying, and ended by being still more mystified by health.
— Pat Barker
I used mental illness as a springboard to rest of my life.
— Clive Culverhouse
Progression and regression go hand in hand with mental health. It is a tough illness. You often take one step forward and ten steps back.
— Theresa Larsen
During my mental illness, thank God, my grandma was my human rescuer and angel, she ask me to stop taking the medication, leading to the recovering.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Often during writing, I am compelled by OCD to delete and rewrite a word or sentence over and over again.
— Abhijit Naskar
Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.
— Joanne Greenberg
What aided the mind made the body suffer. They could choose mental health or physical health, but they could not have both.
— Rufi Thorpe
I think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago.
— Sally Graham
Can you revive wilted tulips?
— Shannon Mullen
The problem with having problems is that 'someone' always has it worse.
— Tiffany Madison
It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.
— Steven Kassels
Many people with Dissociative Disorders are very creative and used their creative capacities to help them cope with childhood trauma.p55
— Marlene Steinberg
I don't like psychiatrists," Alecto told her. "Not because they don't think I'm real, but because they have no idea what they're doing.
— Rebecca McNutt
Vampire Diaries instead of Supernatural?
(Bad choice.) — Madeleine Kuderick
(Bad choice.) — Madeleine Kuderick
There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.
— Matt Haig
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.
— Camille Paglia
I've learned to be comforted in the dark spot of my mind.
— Lisa M. Cronkhite
My heart is sinking and my chest physically aches from the heavy sadness that it carries within.
— Shannon Perry
Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know.
— Michael Lewis
He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Rising from the ashes, I am born again,
powerful, exultant, majestic through all the pain. — Shannon Perry
powerful, exultant, majestic through all the pain. — Shannon Perry
Bipolar is an illness not a hopeless destination it can be maintained with proper medication
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Have you ever suddenly realized it's someone else's mood swing and you're just along for the ride?
— Alex Bosworth
But Hey, Guess What
Crazy means I'm not liable
for my actions. So screw it,
I'll go home, propped up on
Prozac against distractions — Ellen Hopkins
Crazy means I'm not liable
for my actions. So screw it,
I'll go home, propped up on
Prozac against distractions — Ellen Hopkins
If the mind fits, shrink it.
— Brian Spellman
I used my mental illness as a springboard to the rest of my life.
— Clive Culverhouse
Many so-called disorders of the mind are simply disorders of thought.
— Vironika Tugaleva
To think too much is a disease.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
People can't listen until they're ready. I sure couldn't. I was, like, deaf to everyone except the thoughts. They were the boss of me.
— Teresa Toten