Mental Illness Quotes - Page 3

Any breakdown is a breakthrough.

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.

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

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

I have a plan-to go mad.

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

I was just sort of moving through time.

You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.

Tis a mad world, my masters.

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.

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

It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression.

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.

Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.

Love is mental illness going in and mental illness coming out. In between, you do a lot of laundry.

The mind commands the body, and it obeys forthwith; the mind commands itself, and is resisted. The mind commands the hand to be moved, and such readiness is there that the command is scarce to be distinguished from the obedience. Yet the mind is mind, and the hand is body. The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it obeyeth not. Whence this monstrous thing? and why is it?

... I went through a very lethargic period ... I was just sort of getting through every night and every day.

When you're depressed, everything becomes distorted.

Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic.

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.

We shall therefore compare the concept of homosexuality as heresy, prevalent in the days of the witch-hunts, with the concept of homosexuality as mental illness, prevalent today.

It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know?

As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of the richest learning and humanizing experiences life offers.

While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness.

Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it.