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Mental Illness Quotes

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

Authors on Mental Illness Quotes: Thomas Szasz Mark Vonnegut Gail Porter Brian Lindstrom Karl Kraus Patty Duke Linda Hamilton Frank Zappa Elyn Saks Kristin Scott Thomas Sheila Walsh Julie Delpy Alexander Pope Charlotte Dawson Francis Parker Yockey Pat Conroy Steve Lopez Hugh Laurie Saul Bellow Jane Pauley Dave Barry Jacki Weaver Stephanie S. Tolan Melvyn Bragg Uma Thurman Norman Mailer Emily Dickinson Orson Scott Card Robbie Williams Juliette Lewis Allen Ginsberg Ken Wilber Katie Price
2.
Nothing more isolating than a mental illness.
Hannibal

3.
You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one.
Marsha M. Linehan

4.
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
Margaret Atwood

5.
The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.
Juliette Lewis

6.
There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.
Dave Barry

7.
I will find a way out or make one.
Robert Peary

8.
The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
Ashley Montagu

9.
I don't suffer from a mental illness, I live with it.
David Feherty

10.
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.
Rosalynn Carter

11.
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.
Brian Wilson

12.
I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.
Stephen Fry

13.
I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
Irving Stone

14.
I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive.
James Dean Bradfield

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

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

17.
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.
Elyn Saks

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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

19.
There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.
Octave Mirbeau

20.
I'll be the in to your sane.
Gary Numan

21.
Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
Vernon Howard

22.
I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
Gail Porter

23.
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

24.
A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
Jane Pauley

25.
Don't go to bed with any woman crazier than you are.
Frank Zappa

26.
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them
Francis Parker Yockey

27.
love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!
Eric Jerome Dickey

28.
My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us.
Carrie Fisher

29.
All of us are crazy in one or another way.
Theodore Isaac Rubin

30.
People get really irritated by mental illness.
Maria Bamford

31.
Love is a grave mental illness.
Plato

32.
One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.
Terence McKenna

33.
A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.
Luis Bunuel

34.
Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.
Pat Conroy

35.
Pictures help you to form the mental mold.
Robert Collier

36.
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.
George Michael

37.
Maybe I'm a bit of a psycho-but I'd rather be psycho than boring.
Julie Delpy

38.
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
Karl Kraus

39.
It gets on top of me and I get frustrated.
Hugh Laurie

40.
Moods should be heard but never danced to.
Hugh Prather

41.
One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
Alastair Campbell

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

43.
You get such a kick and then it's all over. That's good ground for uncertainty and depression. I usually burst into tears.
Kylie Minogue

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

45.
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

46.
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.
Mark Vonnegut

47.
I have a plan-to go mad.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

48.
Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure
Karl Kraus

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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?
Tipper Gore

50.
You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.
Kristin Scott Thomas