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Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.
Ken Wilber
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Nothing more isolating than a mental illness.
Hannibal
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You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one.
Marsha M. Linehan
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If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
Margaret Atwood
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The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.
Juliette Lewis
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There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.
Dave Barry
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The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
Ashley Montagu
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I don't suffer from a mental illness, I live with it.
David Feherty
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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
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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
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I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.
Stephen Fry
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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
Irving Stone
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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
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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
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There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.
Octave Mirbeau
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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
Vernon Howard
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
Gail Porter
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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
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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
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To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them
Francis Parker Yockey
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love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!
Eric Jerome Dickey
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My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us.
Carrie Fisher
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Love is a grave mental illness.
Plato
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One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.
Terence McKenna
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A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.
Luis Bunuel
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Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.
Pat Conroy
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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
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Maybe I'm a bit of a psycho-but I'd rather be psycho than boring.
Julie Delpy
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
Karl Kraus
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It gets on top of me and I get frustrated.
Hugh Laurie
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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