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Mental Illness Quotes & Sayings

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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

Life wasn't perfect, but it wasn't supposed to be. Eternal beauty could not exist if it were not for the face of a fatal flaw. — Allie Burke

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness — Charles R. Swindoll

Understand ... I don't hate her, I hate what she's become. I hate her illness. — Joseph Stefano

I'm Bipolar but as normal as you except for the times my mind thinks like two — Stanley Victor Paskavich

The inability to play is a sign of mental illness. — Hara Estroff Marano

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

While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me. — Yayoi Kusama

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

The creature who lives inside my brain suggested I do it," I offered tentatively. "It was very convincing. — Joss Sheldon

If you're selfish enough to kill yourself write your suicide note on the back of your will — Stanley Victor Paskavich

People with OCD including myself, realize that their seemingly uncontrollable behavior is irrational, but they feel unable to stop it. — Abhijit Naskar

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

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

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

We mistake our mistakes as being damaged. — Taylor Swift

The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health. — Stefan Molyneux

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

You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one. — Marsha M. Linehan

As smart as I am, it took a boy stuck in his house to teach me that sometimes it doesn't matter where you are at all. It only matters whos with you. — John Corey Whaley

Never underestimate the commercial value of mental illness. — Moriah Jovan

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

Dealing with chronic anxiety has taught me to better understand the nuances of mental illness and the very individual nature of it. — John Corey Whaley

Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation. — Marianne Williamson

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

Never has nostalgia held stronger sway; never has the belief in the redemptive possibilities of the future seemed so laughable. — Ann Marlowe

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

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely. — Charles Bukowski

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

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

There is a dead space between most people and those afflicted with Mental Illness and it's called Understanding — Stanley Victor Paskavich

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

I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness. — Kay Redfield Jamison

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

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place. — Anthony Storr

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

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

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

The problem with having problems is that 'someone' always has it worse. — Tiffany Madison

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

Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day. — Kurt Vonnegut

An inner ease spreads inside me. Such is the power of acceptance and understanding from other people, the power of validation — Kiera Van Gelder

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

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

I think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago. — Sally Graham

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

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 was a schizophrenic, not a damn invalid. — Francesca Zappia

Sometimes I think people take reality for granted. — Francesca Zappia

When we asked him to sum up his impression of the girls' emotional state at that point, he said, Buffeted but not broken. — Jeffrey Eugenides

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

If you want your Demons to go away quit using the words they taught you to say — Stanley Victor Paskavich

For all the normal people who make fun of the mentally ill it's spelled K.A.R.M.A. and it's pronounced your days coming, Bitch! — Stanley Victor Paskavich

I was just sort of moving through time. — Patty Duke

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

gluten has been implicated in mental illness since at least 1979, — Julia Ross

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

I repeat one of my mantras. 'This is not happening. This is not real. This did not happen to you. That was someone else. — Emily Andrews

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

We cannot institutionalize helping the "victims" of personal disasters. — Thomas Szasz

Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night. — Thomas Harris

Schizophrenia. Always a bitch. — Allan Dare Pearce

When you read my poems or quotes remember you're stepping into the mind that steps outside of me — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Mental illness and magic are inextricably tied. — Unknown

All of us are crazy in one or another way. — Theodore Isaac Rubin

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

Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks. — Pat Conroy

People get really irritated by mental illness. — Maria Bamford

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

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? — Saint Augustine

A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion. — Robert Todd Carroll

In the terms of 'Mental Illness' Isn't stable a place they put horses that wish to run free? — Stanley Victor Paskavich

I'm tired of dealing with crazies. When did it become my job to manage your mental illness? — Joan Rivers

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

He tried to sleep, but his head was filled with the faces of lunatics, their palsied hands, their shattered eyes. — Sebastian Faulks

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

Madness is depressing illusion. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Every one wants to be a Genius. But only the brave choose to go mad to get there ... — Stanley Victor Paskavich

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

We are all a collection of lost causes, stashed here so no one has to see just how wounded we are. — Meg Haston

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm afraid to see a psychiatrist about the voices in my head. She might know who they are. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Love is a grave mental illness. — Plato

Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots. — Shannon Mullen

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 voices in my head that tell the other voices what to do are mean. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia. — Kangana Ranaut

Perhaps she wasn't ill at all in the end, but simply more revealed. — Charles Lambert

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

Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia. — Thomas Harris