Mental Illness Quotes - Page 18

• Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Communication, Two, Problem

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• The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again play a decisive role in many suicides

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Play, Roles

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide”, p.84, Vintage

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• To leave behind what was in reality a hell, and immediately have this good green earth revealed in more glory than most men ever see it, was one of the compensating privileges which make me feel that my suffering was worthwhile.

  Clifford Whittingham Beers

  Reality, Men, Suffering

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• It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a vastly complex web of reasons; and, of course, such complexity is warranted. No one illness or event causes suicide; and certainly no one knows all, or perhaps even most, of the motivations behind the killing of the self. But psychopathology is almost always there, and its deadliness is fierce. Love, success, and friendship are not always enough to counter the pain and destructiveness of severe mental illness

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Pain, Motivation

  FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from Feb 18, 2013

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• 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.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Important, Diagnosis, Treatment

  "Rosalynn Carter: Advocate for the mentally ill". Interview with Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. August 11, 2010.

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• Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Cancer, Flu, Ulcers

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

  Mark Vonnegut

  Night, Lasts, Wells

  Mark Vonnegut (2011). “The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity”, p.85, Seven Stories Press

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• Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.

  Craig Ferguson

  Money, Drinking, Heart

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

  Uma Thurman

  Perspective, Lows, Low Points

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• It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your thoughts while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Rain, Believe

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.72, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain.

  Jean Vanier

  Lonely, Pain, Loneliness

  Jean Vanier (2008). “Becoming Human”, p.10, Paulist Press

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

  Jane Pauley

  Diagnosis, Shame, Enough

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• It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is generally premised on the idea that mental illness arises from unconscious psychological conflicts, his papers on cocaine make him one of the fathers of biological psychiatry, which is governed by the notion that mental distress is partly caused by a physical or chemical malfunction that can be treated with drugs.

  Scott Stossel

  Father, Ideas, Drug

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• One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Depression, Dance, Courage

  Thus Spake Zarathustra prologue, sec. 5 (1883) (translation byWalter Kaufmann)

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

  Lysette Anthony

  Suffering, Legacy, Mentally Ill

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• And then I realized that my sister was trying to LIVE a romance novel. Man, that takes courage and imagination. Well, it also took some degree of mental illness, too, but I was suddenly happy for her. And a little scared. Well, a lot scared.

  Sherman Alexie

  Men, Imagination, Romance

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

  Irving Stone

  Book, Cures, Knows

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

  Carl Jung

  War, Neurosis, States

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1969). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

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• 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.

  Tony Shalhoub

  Emotional, Careers, People

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

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• When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Strength, Power, Focus And Concentration

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

  Gail Porter

  Want, Mental Health, Breaking Down

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• Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up.

  Pete Earley

  Giving Up, Character, School

  "What's Driving Pete Earley Crazy". Interview with Lizzie Simon, www.psychologytoday.com. March 18, 2010.

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• When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Practice, Ideas

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• One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

  Alastair Campbell

  People, Four, Illness

  "Bipolar disorder doesn't just affect film stars" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

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• I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

  Anthony Storr

  Bipolar, Lines, Want

  " Anthony Storr, the face of psychiatry, dies" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2001.

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