Best Mental Illness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 24

“It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might be lifelong, or it might descend like a sudden catastrophe, this blankness between ourselves and the rest of the world. The blankness might not even be obvious to others. But on our side of that severed connection, it was hell, a life lived behind glass. The only difference between mild depression and severe schizophrenia was the amount of sound and air that seeped in.”

“15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I'm imitating the mentally ill.”

Ifs Trying Looks Steps Stage Dancing Ill Illness Mental Illness Imitating Mentally Ill

Author:Thom Yorke

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

Suffering Illness Mental Illness

Author:David Feherty

“I enjoy the fact that, as a gay man, there's relatively little pressure on me to act like a grown-up, but also I see the pitfalls that we're susceptible to, addiction, isolation, loneliness, mental illness, not to mention the embarrassing fashion choices.”

Men Littles Facts Choices Enjoy Fashion Loneliness Gay Pressure Addiction Illness Mental Illness Isolation Embarrassing Gay Men Susceptible Pitfalls

Author:Vestal McIntyre

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”

“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society.”

“Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.”

Source: You Can Be Happy No Matter What

“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.”

Has Beens I Can Voice Clear Illness Mental Illness Now And Then Manic Depressive Voices In My Head

Author:Brian Wilson

“Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go-or got careless and crushed it.”

Ifs Hands Happens Depression Illness Mental Illness Sanity Fragile Butterfly Let It Go Crushed Careless Fragile Things

Book:NOS4R2

Source: NOS4R2

“You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head.”

Knows Nice Depression Illness Mental Illness Scare Being Nice Paranoid Schizophrenic

Author:Steven Wright

“When I was sectioned for six months, that was one of the worst experiences of my life, not being able to go out and have freedom. Having experienced it, it's almost inexplicably awful.”

Able Worst Months Six Illness Mental Illness Awful Six Months

Author:Adam Ant

“I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error.”

Errors Illness Mental Illness

Book:Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel

Source: Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel

“Tis a mad world, my masters.”

World Masters Mad Illness Mental Illness Mad World

Book:Travels Through Stuart Britain: The Adventures of John Taylor, the Water Poet

Source: Travels Through Stuart Britain: The Adventures of John Taylor, the Water Poet

“Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness.”

Kind Song Illness Mental Illness

Author:Andrew Bird

“If people can talk about having breast cancer, why can't people who have mental illness talk about mental illness? Until we're able to do that, we're not going to be treated with the same kind of respect for our diseases as other people.”

People Ifs Kind Able Disease Cancer Illness Treated Mental Illness Breasts Breast Cancer

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.”

People Thinking Suicide Illness Mental Illness Tied Bipolar Depressive

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“Physically, I'm healthy as a horse, always held up. But in the mental illness department, I got my share. It's just what I got.”

Share Healthy Horse Illness Mental Illness Department

Author:Shawn Colvin

“Love is a grave mental illness.”

Love Is Illness Graves Mental Illness

Author:Plato

“We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings'.”

Becoming Including Illness Mental Illness Silver

Author:Jacki Weaver

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

Mind Remember Mental Illness Stability Examining Mental Stability

Author:Vernon Howard

“I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.”

People Knows Helping Asks Needed Mental Health Illness Mental Illness Bipolar Dealing With People Needed Help

Author:Clara Hughes

“Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness.”

Kind Clear Tradition Illness Mental Illness Symptoms

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.”

Knows Illness Mental Illness

Author:George McGovern

“Anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering.”

Suffering Deals Amount Anxiety Fairs Illness Resilience Mental Illness Severe Bipolar

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“There should be no more shame in acknowledging (mental illness) than in acknowledging a battle with high blood pressure or the sudden appearance of a malignant tumor.”

Should Blood Battle Pressure Shame Illness Appearance Mental Illness Tumors Blood Pressure High Blood Pressure

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“There's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill and we're all haunted by something, and some people manage to find a way to ride it out so that they don't wind up needing extra help. So I think that "mental illness," as a term, is garbage. Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something.”

People Thinking Way States Helping Term Wind Ill Illness Various Mental Illness Manage Extras Garbage Mentally Ill Extra Help

Author:John Darnielle

“When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I'm talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I'm not talking about mental illness.”

Sex Talking Drug Eating Addiction Illness Alcohol Mental Illness Gambling Throwing Not Talking Drugs And Alcohol Sex Addiction Throwing Up

Author:Abel Ferrara

“People who have certain types of mental illness have different wiring in their brain. And part of that having a different kind of wiring so to speak could in some sense be related to having a different way of thinking which could produce genius type thoughts.”

People Thinking Way Kind Different Certain Speak Brain Produce Type Genius Illness Mental Illness Different Ways Related Different Kinds Way Of Thinking Wiring

Author:H. A. Berlin

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

Illness Absence Mental Illness Native Shamanism

Author:Terence McKenna

“Which is worse, overload or underload? Luckily, I never had to choose. One or Pass on to where? Back into my cells to lurk like a virus waiting for the next opportunity? Out into the ether of the world to wait for the circumstances that would provoke its reappearance? Endogenous or exogenous, nature or nurture - it's the great mystery of mental illness.”

World Next Opportunity Waiting Mystery Circumstances Illness Mental Illness Cells Provoking Nurture Viruses Overload

Book:Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

“And people get so weird about mental illness, you follow the rules! You don't up a heart patient on a roller coaster, you don't put a mental patient on a hunting trip with you!”

People Heart Patient Illness Mental Illness Hunting Roller Coaster Coasters

Author:Christopher Titus

“I love being from a screwed up family. We have everything in my family: prescription drug abuse, mental illness, one of my uncles is a Mormon.”

Love Is Drug My Family Abuse Illness Mental Illness Uncles Prescriptions Screwed Up Drug Abuse Prescription Drugs

Author:Christopher Titus

“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

“One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.”

Heart Feelings Together Sides Hours Enemy Laughing Forgiveness Mental Illness Demon Wrestling Inward Communion Both Sides Hearty

Book:The Heart of William James

Source: The Heart of William James

“There was a time when I was way too reliant upon other people's opinions and perspective of me. And I guess over time came to see how unhealthy that was. I mean it's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers.”

People Way Mean Self Opinion Perspective Illness Stranger Self Worth Mental Illness Unhealthy

Author:Moby

“Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that's part of my mental illness, social anxiety. Closeness to other people is really hard, but it's also a shame because it's all you want too. But it doesn't always work.”

People Want Hard Social Anxiety Shame Painful Illness Mental Illness Closeness Proximity Social Anxiety

Author:Adam Duritz

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

Growing Illness Mental Illness Unhappiness Dissatisfaction

Author:Ken Wilber

“Mental illness is by far the most misunderstood, and stigmatized, of all afflictions. Statistically, one in three families in the U.S. deals with mental illness, and yet it's rarely discussed in the open. It's time for that to change.”

Three Deals Illness Mental Illness Affliction Misunderstood

Author:Neal Shusterman

“It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed or cliché.”

Ifs Wells Seems Film Difficult Illness Heavy Mental Illness Devices

Author:Brian Lindstrom

“I think that most of us instinctively avoid people with mental illness.”

People Thinking Illness Mental Illness

Author:Brian Lindstrom

“In the same way that we want to expand mental health service for people with mental illness, we also need to make sure that our police officers are getting the mental health help they need.”

People Way Want Needs Helping Police Mental Health Illness Mental Illness Officers Police Officer Health Services

Author:Brian Lindstrom

“I wasn't big in the party scene but I did have an excessive lifestyle. I had much more than I needed. I think that was a manifestation of a certain kind of mental illness.”

Thinking Kind Bigs Certain Party Needed Scene Illness Lifestyle Mental Illness Manifestation

Author:Tom Shadyac

“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

“If we are to believe the evidence from clinical trials there are many effective pharmacological and psychological treatments for mental illness. Epidemiological data, on the other hand, says otherwise.”

Ifs Believe Hands Evidence Illness Trials Mental Illness Psychological Data Treatment Clinicals Clinical Trials

Author:Richard Bentall

“Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates of recovery from severe mental illness have not improved despite the availability of apparently effective therapies such as antipsychotic drugs.”

“Countries with the best-resourced medical services have the best outcomes for physical illness (it is better to have a heart attack in Washington or London than in rural Africa) whereas precisely the opposite is the case for mental illness (developing nations with limited psychiatric resources have better outcomes and lower suicide rates).”

Heart Country Nations Cases Resources Opposites Suicide Rate Illness London Medical Mental Illness Developing Outcomes Heart Attack Psychiatric

Author:Richard Bentall

“Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.”

People Needs Helping Ill Illness Mental Illness Diagnosis Mentally Ill

Author:John Darnielle

“I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors.”

People Thinking Reason Certain Environmental Illness Mental Illness Factors Wiring Environmental Factors

Author:Karin Slaughter

“Mental illness is a real thing. It has real material consequences for people who suffer from it and at the time even the most biological finding reflects social context in very important ways, and so I think psychiatry is better off looking both at biology and at social context and really trying to think of the relationship between these and I think doctors and patients are better off that way.”

“I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems.”

People Thinking Self Problem Self Esteem Terrible Abuse Illness Mental Illness Esteem

Author:Sinead O'Connor

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