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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
This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness
— Charles R. Swindoll
Speaker says psychology has commandeered "everything hard" and partitioned it from Scripture with the assumption that its causes are biological
— Edward T. Welch
I begin to wonder if David was like me. Seeing monsters everywhere and realizing there aren't enough slingshots in the world to get rid of them.
— Neal Shusterman
Depression is real. It happens. We go through it. Hold onto yourself in those moments.
— Avijeet Das
People with developmental disabilities and mental illness are only handicapped by how much we underestimate them.
— Donna Kirk
Want to do something noble and courageous while you're on this Earth treat the mentally ill like they have some worth.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
I went through a very lethargic period ... I was just sort of getting through every night and every day.
— Patty Duke
The amount of sympathy you get from having an illness is paid out like a Ponzi scheme and psychiatric disorders are all the way at the bottom.
— Nenia Campbell
We've eaten, but he looks hungry, and experience tells me that crazy takes a lot of calories to sustain.
— Emil Ostrovski
For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet ... and hoped that they would go away.
— Richard J. Codey
Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
— Upton Sinclair
Depression is our way of telling ourselves that something is seriously wrong and needs working through and changing.
— Neel Burton
Crisis is what suppressed pain looks like; it always comes to the surface. It shakes you into reflection and healing.
— Bryant McGill
I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive.
— James Dean Bradfield
By taking the time to focus on our mental and emotional well-being, we can minimize our triggers and reduce the likelihood of a recurrence.
— Sarah Hackley
Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.
— Elyn R. Saks
Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.
— Jasmine Warga
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.
— Paul Gascoigne
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
The stigma of mental illness is still alive and well.
— Kate Clifford Larson
Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.
— Susanna Kaysen
Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know.
— Michael Lewis
You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees a bottomless pit in yours.
— Neal Shusterman
If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain - in time you will move through your pain.
— Bryant McGill
I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life.
— Marya Hornbacher
The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.
— Allen Ginsberg
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
Age, mental illness, and failure are all in the mind.They put the pain there to let you know it hurts. — David Holmes
One began by finding mental illness mystifying, and ended by being still more mystified by health.
— Pat Barker
Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.
— Michael Greenberg
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
Love is mental illness going in and mental illness coming out. In between, you do a lot of laundry.
— Steve Lopez
The medication given during mental-ill health makes you rather weaker in body, in soul and in spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.
— Victor LaValle
Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.
— Neel Burton
Inside my head is a jigsaw made of trillions and trillions and trillions of atoms. It might take a while.
— Nathan Filer
Smiles are a funny thingand laughter is hilarious.
I smile sometimes
when I am delirious. — Casey Renee Kiser
There is a dead space between most people and those afflicted with Mental Illness and it's called Understanding
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
When had I stopped being a person with Paranoid Schizophrenia, and become a Paranoid Schizophrenic; defined by my illness?
— Michaela Haze
An inner ease spreads inside me. Such is the power of acceptance and understanding from other people, the power of validation
— Kiera Van Gelder
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
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
Have you ever suddenly realized it's someone else's mood swing and you're just along for the ride?
— Alex Bosworth
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
It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.
— Steven Kassels
I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.
— Francis Parker Yockey
I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.
— Anthony Storr
The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!
— Patrick W. Corrigan
It's great to be young and insane.
— Michael Keaton
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
My heart is sinking and my chest physically aches from the heavy sadness that it carries within.
— Shannon Perry
The forest is blanketed by the greenest ferns and moss and bonsai-like trees, a wild majesty that beckons hobbits and pixies and elves and dreamers.
— Shannon Mullen
That's what mountains do, they taunt you, lure you to the freedom of the wilderness, and it is fucking exhilarating.
— Shannon Mullen
I take medication every day for mental illness and depression and don't feel bad about it.
— Lady Gaga
A Depressive?' 'Smiles in ballrooms, weeps in bedrooms. Ill in her head.' Olive tapped her temple. 'And here.' She touched her heart. — Jessie Burton
The west coast is a mecca for wild hearts, wild minds, wild spirits and I'm a WMD - I've got so much energy I'm about to explode.
— Shannon Mullen
The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of the world but those who fight and win battles that others do not know anything about.
— Jonathan Harnisch
As it is with all stories, fast cars, wild bears, mental illness, and even life, only one truth remains: your mileage may vary.
— Jenny Lawson
The cycles of dysfunction and mental illness did not have to carry over from generation to generation. You just had to educate yourself. Erika
— Liane Moriarty
I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse.
— Robbie Williams
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
I need them to be aware and present with me in the midst of the storm, not just tell me what to do.
— Kiera Van Gelder
