Mental Illness Quotes

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

Nothing more isolating than a mental illness.

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

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.

I will find a way out or make one.

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.

Early diagnosis is so important because the earlier a mental illness can be detected, diagnosed and treatment can begin, the better off that person can be for the rest of his or her life.

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

A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion.

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.

Don't go to bed with any woman crazier than you are.

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

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

I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse.

Everywhere I looked life seemed to be full of problems and they were just going to go on and on. It was never going to get any better.

There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.

I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive.

I'll be the in to your sane.

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.