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“In other words, homosexuality was no longer to be considered an illegal form of debauchery or perversion in which one willingly engaged a person of his own sex, but a mental illness which one blamed on his mother. Consequently, a homosexual is not responsible for his behavior - it's his mother's fault!”

Persons Form Mother Sex Behavior Responsible Faults Illness Scary Mental Illness Engaged Illegal Homosexuality Homosexual Perversion Debauchery

Book:The unhappy gays: what everyone should know about homosexuality

Source: The unhappy gays: what everyone should know about homosexuality

“Whether it's someone struggling with mental illness, someone struggling with poverty or struggling with their own limitations in their social behaviors, for some reason, I'm drawn to characters like that.”

Reason Character Social Poverty Struggle Behavior Illness Mental Illness Limitation Social Behavior

Author:Gbenga Akinnagbe

“The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.”

Behavior Essence Patterns Illness Insatiable Freezing

Book:Newurotic Distortion of the Creative Process

Source: Newurotic Distortion of the Creative Process

“I find human behavior to be fascinating, which is probably why I'm an actor, and I think that there are a lot of dangerous misconceptions about mental illness in our society, and I would like to be a part of remedying that - particularly the stigma that surrounds so many mental illnesses.”

Thinking Humans Actors Dangerous Behavior Illness Mental Illness Fascinating Our Society Surround Human Behavior Misconception Stigma

Author:Laura Benanti

“the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness was one i should willingly give up....moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable reactions to what life has dealt....even though the depressions that inevitably followed nearly cost me my life.”

“Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It is an illness that is biological in its origins, yet one that feels psychological in the experience of it, an illness that is unique in conferring advantage and pleasure, yet one that brings in its wake almost unendurable suffering and, not infrequently, suicide.”

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique. It is the illness of identity, it is the illness of those who do not know where they fit, who lose faith in the myths they have so painstakingly created for themselves. It is a plague - especially if you add in its various forms of expression, like alcoholism, anorexia, bulimia, drug addiction, compulsive behavior of one kind or another. They're all the same things: attempts to avoid disappearance, or nothingness, or chaos.”