Mental Illness Quotes

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

Nothing more isolating than a mental illness.

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

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.

I will find a way out or make one.

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

Early diagnosis is so important because the earlier a mental illness can be detected, diagnosed and treatment can begin, the better off that person can be for the rest of his or her life.

I don't suffer from a mental illness, I live with it.

Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.

I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.

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

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

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.

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.

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

I'll be the in to your sane.

I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive.

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

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

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.

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

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.

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

My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us.

All of us are crazy in one or another way.

People get really irritated by mental illness.

Love is a grave mental illness.

love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!

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

A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.

Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.

Pictures help you to form the mental mold.

Moods should be heard but never danced to.

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

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

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

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

It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.

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

It gets on top of me and I get frustrated.

With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that go from being too important to being not important at all.

I have a plan-to go mad.

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

We know that mental illness is not something that happens to other people. It touches us all. Why then is mental illness met with so much misunderstanding and fear?

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

Mental illness, of course, is not literally a "thing" - or physical object - and hence it can "exist" only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist.