Mental Illness Quotes

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  • Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon, its focus on the self preventing any other from really counting? Perhaps. Sometimes. Sometimes, even when we are two we are really only one; we can feel nothing but our own bones, our own difficult breaths.

    Depression   Self   Two  
  • I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.

    Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.
  • Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's terrorizes us, it has power over us. When we are prepared to discuss it aloud, we might have power over it. It's thought of as a mental illness and it is a physical illness, affecting the brain. There should be no shame in having it, yet people still don't talk about it

  • 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.

    "The Drama of the Gifted Child". Book by Alice Miller, 1979.
  • For people with mental illness, taking care of the body is not an automatic thing. The mind is in such chaos it's hard to come up with a plan. So to people like us, it's more important than ever to follow a regimen.

    People   Mind   Important  
    Source: www.nbcnews.com
  • You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.

  • The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity.

  • The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

    Knowing   People   Mind  
    Walter Bagehot (1858). “Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen”, p.337
  • For years now, I've been talking about the rise of the extreme right in the U.S. Since 9/11, white nationalists have killed more Americans on U.S. soil than any foreign or domestic terrorist group combined. It's something we don't categorize as terrorism or extremism. We often brush it off as mental illness - things like Oak Creek Wisconsin - and these people are certainly tied to white supremacy, have written manifestos. We've got a major problem in not calling that terrorism.

    Source: chicagoist.com
  • It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.

  • I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.

    Jennifer Lynch (2011). “The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer”, p.156, Simon and Schuster
  • I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression that has something to do with biorhythms. I'm talking about the kind of depressed that floats in upon you like a fog. You can feel it coming and you can see where it is going to take you but you are powerless, utterly powerless to stop it. I know now.

  • 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).

    Country   Suicide   Heart  
    Source: www.psychologytoday.com
  • Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available.

    "On Spiritual Truths" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2011.
  • 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.'

  • The Republican Party cannot be anti-trade, anti-immigrant, not out there practicing the politics of people, you know, the issues surrounding drug addiction and mental illness and the cost of prescription drugs and healthcare and student debt and all of these things are very personal to people now.

    Party   Issues   People  
    Source: uk.businessinsider.com
  • I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out.

  • What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?

    Stephen King (2016). “Four Past Midnight”, p.301, Simon and Schuster
  • Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

  • The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.

    Allen Ginsberg, Lewis Hyde (1984). “On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg”, p.391, University of Michigan Press
  • Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else.

  • But what is madness, if not being able to control your own mind?

    Depression   Mind   Able  
  • Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. The second you meet someone that you're going to fall in love with you deliberately become a moron. You do this in order to fall in love, because it would be impossible to fall in love with any human being if you actually saw them for what they are.

  • All of us are crazy in one or another way.

  • I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person.

  • 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.

  • I think love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America.

  • I will say in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story.

    Race   Adoption   Choices  
    "Fictional 'Mothers' Reveal Facts Of A Painful Adoption Process". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 22, 2013.
  • I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

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