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“My new catchphrase is: 'Pull yourself together.' I've done the inner child, I've had analysis, I've decided that unless you're mentally ill and need support, it's up to you.”

Life Needs Children Done Together Support Advice Decided Ill Analysis Up To You Inner Child Mentally Ill

Author:Sheila Hancock

“Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.”

People Wells Seems Ill Insane Reasonable Mentally Ill

Author:Alan Dershowitz

“All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch, the lost children, on this the suicided parents, here the beloved mentally ill siblings. When something terrible happens, you discover all of the sudden that you have a new set of relatives, people with whom you can speak in the shorthand of cousins.”

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Author:Elizabeth McCracken

“Clearly, there are a thousand and one scenarios for how someone can slip through the cracks. I'll walk down the street and see a homeless person, and I'll want to stop them and say, How did this happen? Where's your mother? Are you physically ill? Mentally ill?”

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Author:William Baldwin

“Trying to prove you’re not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you’re not mentally ill,’ said Tony.”

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Book:The Psychopath Test

Source: The Psychopath Test

“What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.”

Needs Conversation Mental Health Sunlight Candor Mentally Ill

Author:Glenn Close

“Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment.”

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Author:Thomas Szasz

“The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.”

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Author:Andy Behrman

“Let me get this straight. A mentally ill madman goes on a shooting spree to assassinate a United States Congressperson... and the lesson learned by liberals is that guns must be taken away from law-abiding citizens? Really? What’s the connection between a mentally ill nutcase and perfectly sane, responsible people? There is none.”

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Author:Wayne Allyn Root

“Other countries care for their mentally ill. Making them debate on TV is just cruel.”

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Author:Andy Borowitz

“Looking after children can be a subtle way of giving up... They become the whole ones, the well ones, the postponement of happiness, the ones who won't drink too much, give up, get divorced, become mentally ill. The part of oneself that's fighting against decay and depression is transferred to guarding them from decay and depression. In the meantime one decays and gets depressed.”

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Author:Edward St Aubyn

“The NRA disgraced itself this morning with a self-serving press event in which they demonized the media and the entertainment industry for gun violence in America, and advocated a national data base for all mentally ill persons. They apparently want armed guards in all American schools, and it seems, armed volunteers as well. Shocking.”

“The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.”

People Needs Acceptance Conversation Mental Health Ill Sunlight Candor Mentally Ill

Author:Glenn Close

“A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience”

Persons Audience Genius Ill Mentally Ill

Author:Tim Minchin

“Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.”

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Author:Lysette Anthony

“I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.”

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Author:Carrie Fisher

“Well, I think it's important to stand as an advocate for the mentally ill.”

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Author:Linda Hamilton