“Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it.'” PeopleThinkingWellsHappensIgnoranceComfortDeserveIllnessMental IllnessFrighteningOh Well Author:Pete Earley
“The actor playing Lee got really irritated. He tried to escape by turning, running, or twisting and talking or yelling above the voice of the illness, but the illness didn't sit quietly.” RunningActorsVoiceTalkingIllnessYellingIrritated Book:Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness Source: Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness
“Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up.” IfsWayGivingFeelsI CanSometimesCharacterSchoolGiving UpMajorsSickIllnessMental IllnessVampireDisorderPublishersNot Giving UpBipolarAttendingBipolar DisorderHogwartsLove Sick Author:Pete Earley
“People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick.” PeopleRealStreetsDyingCrimeSickPrisonIllnessMental IllnessJail Author:Pete Earley