Mental Illness Quotes - Page 13

• I have been struggling with mental illness and emptiness throughout my life. Now I want people to understand my glorious quest for the truth. Working on paintings is a process toward my artistic creation. It is a new spiritual theme of my whole philosophy for pursuing the truth. Each painting represents a process in all of my art.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Spiritual, Art, Philosophy

  Source: travel.cnn.com

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• I think that, generally, when it's a white male shooting, then it's mental illness is the first thing that they utilize after reporting the crime. But in this instance, a Muslim, it's always terrorism. So it's always a direct attack towards Muslims, who are American citizens, and as well as other individuals who are here who believe in their faith. And we find that we are now in a position again of trying to protect ourselves, and, again, in some instances, causing people to become more sequestered in their day-to-day lives.

  Daayiee Abdullah

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There was not an episode [on Perception] that didn't deal with some form of mental illness, either my own, or I would be the first to notice if a defendant did a certain thing that perhaps he was suffering from this. And so we got to do some really outspoken stuff for what was otherwise a crime-solving show. And it was just a really good team.

  Eric McCormack

  Team, Perception, Suffering

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  John Kasich

  Party, Issues, People

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least a faint, morbid urge to jump. And anyone who has ever put a loaded pistol up to his head... All right, my point is this: even the most well-adjusted person is holding onto his or her sanity by a greased rope. I really believe that. The rationality circuits are shoddily built into the human animal.

  Stephen King

  Depression, Suicide, Believe

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• Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is to help them find different areas of passion and help them find better ways of coping. Because about 50 percent of people with addiction have a preexisting mental illness, about two-thirds have had some type of severe trauma during childhood, and they are not using to the point where they're risking their lives because it's fun. They're doing something to help them cope.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Fun, Passion, Punishment

  Source: sojo.net

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• Mental illness and creativity are - it's a thin line in between the two. I tend to believe that.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Believe, Creativity, Two

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear, no ugliness.

  Melissa Marr

  Pain, Fear, Talking

  Melissa Marr (2009). “Ink Exchange”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• In some ways, I don’t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read and write, I was making up stories. I love reading and I love telling stories, and the times in my life when I’ve tried to ignore that part of me, I’ve gone a little crazy. Characters start tugging on my sleeves, words start haunting me, and I feel generally unsatisfied. Really, being a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

  Shannon Hale

  Crazy, Reading, Writing

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• Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that's part of my mental illness, social anxiety. Closeness to other people is really hard, but it's also a shame because it's all you want too. But it doesn't always work.

  Adam Duritz

  People, Anxiety, Want

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

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• There was a time when I was way too reliant upon other people's opinions and perspective of me. And I guess over time came to see how unhealthy that was. I mean it's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers.

  Moby

  Mean, Self Worth, Perspective

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• Which is worse, overload or underload? Luckily, I never had to choose. One or Pass on to where? Back into my cells to lurk like a virus waiting for the next opportunity? Out into the ether of the world to wait for the circumstances that would provoke its reappearance? Endogenous or exogenous, nature or nurture - it's the great mystery of mental illness.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Opportunity, Cells, Waiting

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.78, Vintage

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• Whether it's someone struggling with mental illness, someone struggling with poverty or struggling with their own limitations in their social behaviors, for some reason, I'm drawn to characters like that.

  Gbenga Akinnagbe

  Struggle, Character, Social Behavior

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• I love being from a screwed up family. We have everything in my family: prescription drug abuse, mental illness, one of my uncles is a Mormon.

  Christopher Titus

  Uncles, Love Is, Drug

  "Christopher Titus: Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding". Comedy, One-man Show, www.imdb.com. June 06, 2004.

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• And people get so weird about mental illness, you follow the rules! You don't up a heart patient on a roller coaster, you don't put a mental patient on a hunting trip with you!

  Christopher Titus

  Heart, Hunting, People

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

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kind, Tradition, Symptoms

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

  George McGovern

  Illness, Knows

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• Anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Anxiety, Bipolar, Resilience

  "Kay Redfield Jamison - A deep love and loss". "All In The Mind" with Natasha Mitchell, www.abc.net.au. January 15, 2011.

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• There should be no more shame in acknowledging (mental illness) than in acknowledging a battle with high blood pressure or the sudden appearance of a malignant tumor.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Blood, Battle, Pressure

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• There's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill and we're all haunted by something, and some people manage to find a way to ride it out so that they don't wind up needing extra help. So I think that "mental illness," as a term, is garbage. Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something.

  John Darnielle

  Thinking, Extra Help, Wind

  "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

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• When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I'm talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I'm not talking about mental illness.

  Abel Ferrara

  Sex, Gambling, Talking

  Interview with Aïda Ruilova, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• People who have certain types of mental illness have different wiring in their brain. And part of that having a different kind of wiring so to speak could in some sense be related to having a different way of thinking which could produce genius type thoughts.

  H. A. Berlin

  Thinking, People, Brain

  Source: bigthink.com

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

  Ken Wilber

  Growing, Unhappiness, Dissatisfaction

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• I wasn't big in the party scene but I did have an excessive lifestyle. I had much more than I needed. I think that was a manifestation of a certain kind of mental illness.

  Tom Shadyac

  Party, Thinking, Kind

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• Mental illness is by far the most misunderstood, and stigmatized, of all afflictions. Statistically, one in three families in the U.S. deals with mental illness, and yet it's rarely discussed in the open. It's time for that to change.

  Neal Shusterman

  Misunderstood, Three, Affliction

  "Five questions for Neal Shusterman". Interview with Elissa Gershowitz, www.hbook.com. March 9, 2015.

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