Mental Illness Quotes - Page 4

I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb.

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.

Some view mental illness as a purely spiritual issue and deny the need for medication or other forms of treatment. Others view it as an illness with no spiritual aspect. I believe it's a combination of both.

Physically, I'm healthy as a horse, always held up. But in the mental illness department, I got my share. It's just what I got.

It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.

Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence.

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

I believe in such a thing called mental illness that leads to some evil.

People with what we call mental illness can indeed serve well, and people who have no discernible mental illness - and that may be true of Trump - may not be able to serve, may be quite unfit. So it isn't always the question of a psychiatric diagnosis. It's really a question of what psychological and other traits render one unfit or dangerous.

Writing my blog has saved me thousands on therapy.

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.

Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist.

You're never too old to be crazy.

Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was quite severe, leaving me deeply unhappy and frightened.

Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness.

Well, I thought, last night I paid my dues. I faced death. Now I can stay.

What we're seeing at the moment is people being radicalised or adopting Islamist, murderous Islamist ideology very, very quickly so that you have people that are not on the counterterrorism radar screen who then often, as a result of mental illness, will then attach themselves to this murderous ideology and then act very quickly.

Forty percent of the people who are being treated for mental illness are not addressing the physical body.

I want to destigmatize the words mental illness.

I take medication every day for mental illness and depression and don't feel bad about it.

Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.

I was a psycho woman. It felt like something in me that I had no control over.

Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else.

And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.

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