Best Mental Illness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 27

“In some ways, I don’t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read and write, I was making up stories. I love reading and I love telling stories, and the times in my life when I’ve tried to ignore that part of me, I’ve gone a little crazy. Characters start tugging on my sleeves, words start haunting me, and I feel generally unsatisfied. Really, being a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.”

“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.”

Important Feelings Illness Tricks Mental Illness

Book:Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir

Source: Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”

Way Inspirational Dies Emotion Alive Mental Health Mental Illness Buried Self Expression Emotional Love Expressing Emotions

Author:Sigmund Freud

“But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind- less flavor to life. Van Gogh, Beethoven, Edgar Allen Poe, Sylvia Plath, Pink Floyd (the early Piper at the Gates of Dawn line up), scientific breakthroughs, spiritual revolution, utopian visions, zany nationalism that kills millions- wait, that’s the bad kind. Tim Dorsey (Hurricane Punch)”

Kind Spiritual Waiting Lines Vision Millions Revolution Illness Mental Illness Dawn Nationalism Gates Flavor Vans Breakthrough Hurricanes Utopian Pipers Cholesterol Plath Edgar Allen

Author:Tim Dorsey

“Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.”

Individual Struggle Childhood Acceptance Emotional Taught Weapons Unique Discovery Endure Illness Mental Illness Taught Us

Author:Alice Miller

“I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with my body than something wrong with my head, but the idea seemed so involved and wearisome that I didn’t say anything. I only burrowed down further in the bed.”

Ifs Ideas Body Would Be Wanted Fine Involved Bed Mental Health Mental Illness Say Anything

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.”

Knows Shows Order Difficult Situation Mental Illness Bad Things Survivor Showing Off Difficult Situations

Book:The Best Awful: A Novel

Source: The Best Awful: A Novel

“You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.”

Soul Band Mental Health Aids Mental Illness Wounded Ptsd Patches Band Aid

Book:The Black Echo

Source: The Black Echo

“Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices.”

Choices Serious Eating Illness Lifestyle Mental Illness Disorder Eating Disorder Lifestyle Choices

Author:Demi Lovato

“I hear they feed you in Sing Sing,” Evie muttered. “Three squares a day.” “Evangeline,” Will said with a sigh. “Charity begins at home.” “So does mental illness.”

Doe Said Home Three Charity Illness Mental Illness Squares Sigh Charity Begins At Home

Author:Libba Bray

“The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache. This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.”

World Kind Depression Roots Illness Mental Illness Recognition Suspects Mortality Consolation Ache Psychiatrist Shattering Parochialism

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.”

Love Is Illness Mental Illness Romantic Love Best Love Funny Love Funny Falling In Love Humor Love Silly Love

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.”

Thinking Mind Long Success Term Chance Attitude Negative Mental Health Mental Illness Long Term Diminish Negative Thinking Tattooed Long Term Success

Book:Developing the Leader Within You

Source: Developing the Leader Within You

“If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it as a crime, and driving it underground, we ought to recognize it for what it is: it's a mental illness, it's a psychiatric condition which ought to be treated sympathetically by psychiatrists and social workers.”

Ifs Country Social Attitude Conditions Crime Ought Needed Workers Illness Sexuality Driving Treated Mental Illness Homosexuality Psychiatrist Social Worker Psychiatric New Attitude

Author:Tommy Douglas

“My wife, like many women, actually LIKES wrapping things. If she gives you a gift that requires batteries, she wraps the batteries separately, which to me is very close to being a symptom of mental illness.”

Ifs Giving Wife Illness My Wife Likes Mental Illness Symptoms Wraps Batteries Funny Christmas Wrapping

Author:Dave Barry

“This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness”

Humans Problem Inspiration Suffering Emotional Bases Illness Mental Illness Tendencies Primaries Inherent Emotional Suffering

Book:Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life

Source: Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life

“Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.”

Humans Inspiration Human Beings Century Mental Health Mental Illness Insanity

Book:Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness

Source: Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness

“There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least a faint, morbid urge to jump. And anyone who has ever put a loaded pistol up to his head... All right, my point is this: even the most well-adjusted person is holding onto his or her sanity by a greased rope. I really believe that. The rationality circuits are shoddily built into the human animal.”

“[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.”

People Kind Seems Religion Atheism Dangerous Capable Illness Driving Mental Illness Folly Mentally Ill

Book:The Selfish Gene

Source: The Selfish Gene

“I don't believe anybody has a right to own any kind of a firearm. I believe in order to obtain a permit to own a firearm, that person should undergo an exhaustive criminal background check. In addition, an applicant should give up his right to privacy and submit his medical records for review to see if the person has ever had a problem with alcohol, drugs or mental illness... The Constitution doesn't count!”

“This is a word that is not a scientific term. This is a rhetorical tool of psychological manipulation... Because everyone knows if you dare to say homosexuality is wrong...you are a homophobe, which means you have a mental illness. That's what's built into this terminology.”

Ifs Knows Mean Term Gay Built Tools Illness Dare Mental Illness Psychological Manipulation Homosexuality Rhetorical Terminology Homophobes Psychological Manipulation

Author:Scott Lively

“It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.”

People Believe Shows Forget Materials Mental Illness Fake Fake People Make Believe

Author:Eric Bogosian

“I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.”

Believe Eating Mental Health Don't Believe Illness Mental Illness Disorder Screws Eating Disorder Screw Ups I Don't Believe You

Author:Kirstie Alley

“I'll be the in to your sane.”

Depression Mental Illness Sane Life And Love

Author:Gary Numan

“You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively. ... You put a piece of paper in the typewriter, or you turn on your computer and bring up the right file. ... You begin rocking, just a little at first, and then like a huge autistic child. ... Then your mental illnesses arrive at the desk like your sickest, most secretive relatives. And they pull up chairs in a semicircle around the computer, and they try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath, leering at you behind your back.”

“If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state of mind he is seeking to avoid is no more than a mild state of depression or apathy, this still constitutes a cogent reason for engaging in creative work even when it brings no obvious external benefit in its train.”

Ifs Men Writing Mind Stills States Reason Wonder Creative Protect Benefits Train Illness Obvious Seeking Mental Illness Pursue State Of Mind Apathy Engaging Creative Work

Author:Anthony Storr

“The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.”

Way Term Conversation Depression Mental Illness Landscape These Days Depressing Catastrophe Psychics Clinicals Clinical Depression

Author:Leonard Cohen

“I have come to realize that an early symptom of approaching mental illness is the belief that one's work is terribly important. If you consider your work very important you should take a day off.”

Ifs Should Important Success Belief Realizing Teaching Illness Mental Illness Symptoms Days Off

Author:Bertrand Russell

“I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.”

Knows Book Able Remember Worry Sick Died Patient Illness Mental Illness Do You Know Nurse Nursing

Author:Ornette Coleman

“Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself.”

Challenges Sadness Events Mental Health Illness Disappointment Mental Illness Severe Events In Life

Author:Richard G. Scott

“It all made sense - terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of partial knowledge. And now the torment of partly knowing had yielded to the infinitely greater terror of knowing precisely”

Made Knowing Greater Happened Terrible Mental Health Illness Terror Mental Illness Panic Not Knowing Torment Warehouse

Book:Sybil

Source: Sybil

“Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get.”

Needs Helping Suicide Mental Health Illness Mental Illness Loved Ones Recovering

Author:Judy Collins

“Writing my blog has saved me thousands on therapy.”

Writing Mental Health Illness Saved Mental Illness Therapy Blogs

Book:One Big Thing: Discovering What You Were Born to Do

Source: One Big Thing: Discovering What You Were Born to Do

“You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.”

Turns Talking Stress Mental Health Illness Mental Illness Clock

Author:Peter Shilton

“Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.”

Healing Shame Mental Health Illness Mental Illness Ashamed Helpful Bias Stigma Bipolar Biased Mentally Ill Mental Disorder

Author:William J. Clinton

“It's a bit like walking down a long, dark corridor never knowing when the light will go on.”

Long Light Bits Dark Knowing Goes On Walking Mental Health Mental Illness Corridors Help With Depression

Author:Neil Lennon

“Mania starts off fun, not sleeping for days, keeping company with your brain, which has become a wonderful computer, showing 24 TV channels all about you. That goes horribly wrong after awhile.”

Fun Sleep Brain Company Wonderful Tvs Depression Computer Mental Health Mental Illness Mania Not Sleeping

Author:Carrie Fisher

“The lows were absolutely horrible. It was like falling into a manhole and not being able to lift the lid and climb out.”

Able Fall Depression Lows Mental Health Horrible Mental Illness Lifts Climbs

Author:Linda Hamilton

“You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you.”

Knows Mental Health Mental Illness Good Day Bad Day Have A Good Day Always With You Good Days And Bad Days Good And Bad Days

Author:Winona Ryder

“You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.”

Ifs Would Be Funny Common Attitude Ill Illness Mental Illness Common Sense Granted Insanity Dread Adopting Deluded Puzzled Mentally Ill

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure”

Literature Illness Mental Illness Cures Psychoanalysis

Author:Karl Kraus

“You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one.”

Feels Mean Patient Illness Mental Illness

Author:Marsha M. Linehan

“I can't describe the feeling when I go down - it's down down down and there's never going to be an up again. And whatever was good isn't good any more; white becomes grey, music becomes dictionaries, honey becomes beer and the sky a curdled lemon. There's no caramel anymore.”

I Can Feelings White Sky Music Is Down And Illness Mental Illness Beer Honey Grey Dictionary Lemons Caramel

Author:John Marsden

“I just felt as though I would never be happy again, and as if I had fallen into a big black hole.”

Ifs Bigs Felt Black Illness Holes Mental Illness Fallen Black Hole Happy Again

Author:Brooke Shields

“There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.”

Needs Helping Suffering Shame Illness Seeking Mental Illness Help Me Bipolar Seeking Help

Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones

“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.”

Believe Illness Mental Illness Curse

Author:George Michael

“I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in my family.”

Thinking Guy Rich My Family Illness Mental Illness Bipolar Manic Bipolar Disorder Family Man Manic Depression

Author:Ben Stiller

“Every pore of you is crying and you don't even understand why or what. I actually kind of died and got born again as a result of taking the meds and having a chance to, you know, build a life.”

Knows Kind Born Chance Results Cry Died Illness Mental Illness Born Again Meds

Author:Sinead O'Connor

“I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness”

Thinking Illness Mental Illness Our Family Vocabulary

Author:Glenn Close

“The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any rest.”

Giving Fantasy Worst Ill Illness Mental Illness Consistent Worst Things Mentally Ill

Book:The Changed Man: Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

Source: The Changed Man: Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

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