Mental Health Illness Quotes

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

What's more insane? Hearing imaginary voices? Or not hearing the real ones? — Forrest Carr

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

They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me. — Nathaniel Lee

This is how you explain how you feel: broken words and hard truths. — R. YS Perez

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

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

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

The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue! — Patrick W. Corrigan

1 in 5 people have dandruff. 1 in 4 people have mental health problems. I've had both. — Ruby Wax

Thoughts. Thoughts bombard my head, my brain. My psyche — Jonathan Harnisch

You want to be there for me but an anxiety attack is a solitary activity. — R. YS Perez

Have you ever suddenly realized it's someone else's mood swing and you're just along for the ride? — Alex Bosworth

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

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

We all talk to ourselves. Those we call mad just talk a little louder. — Marty Rubin

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

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

Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have — Edvard Munch

What aided the mind made the body suffer. They could choose mental health or physical health, but they could not have both. — Rufi Thorpe

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

Bipolar is an illness not a hopeless destination it can be maintained with proper medication — Stanley Victor Paskavich

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

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

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

Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know. — Michael Lewis

This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy. — Ruby Wax

Unfortunately, mental health is so misunderstood that some people think you have to be crazy to need to speak to a therapist. — Nicole Curtis

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

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 medication given during mental-ill health makes you rather weaker in body, in soul and in spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

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