Mental Illness Quotes - Page 20

• I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.

  Clara Hughes

  People, Bipolar, Helping

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• Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes.

  Deb Caletti

  Believe, Eye, Creativity

  Deb Caletti (2013). “Love Is All You Need: Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• We have to get the word out that mental illnesses can be diagnosed and treated, and almost everyone suffering from mental illness can live meaningful lives in their communities.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Meaningful, Community, Suffering

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• The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

  Karl Marx

  Strength, Depression, Pain

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• Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Memories, Wish, Criminal Mind

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• Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.

  Angela Davis

  Views, Addiction, Drug

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• Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it’s always in the form of someone homeless. “Look at that guy - he’s crazy. He looks dangerous.” Well, he’s on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home...

  Eric McCormack

  Jobs, Crazy, Home

  "‘Perception’ On TNT: Eric McCormack On His Schizophrenic New Role And Getting Away From ‘Will & Grace’". Interview with Maggie Furlong, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2012.

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• It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.

  Carson Kressley

  Ideas, Diversity, Being Different

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

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• The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.

  Andy Behrman

  Broken, Guilt, Six

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• I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air and sound and time and feeling are thick and dense.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Love, Depression, Running

  Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, p.270, Zola Books

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• It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.

  Glenn Close

  People, Society, Actresses

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

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• You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

  Michael Connelly

  Soul, Band, Ptsd

  Michael Connelly (2012). “The Black Echo”, p.69, Hachette UK

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• Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

  Camille Paglia

  Self, Bipolar, Mental Health

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.103, Vintage

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

  Marsha M. Linehan

  Mean, Patient, Feels

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• The only way past the pain is through it. Pain, grief, anger, misery...they don't go away-they just increase and compound and get worse. You have to live through them, acknowledge them. You have to give your pain its due.

  Jasinda Wilder

  Pain, Grief, Past

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• In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

  Alastair Campbell

  Stars, Media, World

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

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• Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't we, as a nation, begin to speed up that process? We need a national campaign to destigmatize mental illness, especially one targeted toward African Americans. The message must go on billboards and in radio and TV public service announcements. It must be preached from pulpits and discussed in community forums. It's not shameful to have a mental illness. Get treatment. Recovery is possible.

  Bebe Moore Campbell

  Healing, Recovery, Years

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• Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. ... You're frightened, and you're frightening, and you're 'not at all like yourself but will be soon,' but you know you won't.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Depression, Jobs, Divorce

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.133, Pan Macmillan

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• There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Self Esteem, Mirrors, Laughing

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.208, Penguin

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• Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

  Voltaire

  Depression, Thinking, Bipolar

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• The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

  Carl Jung

  Suffering, Foundation, Mindfulness

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• For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away.

  Richard Codey

  Afterlife, Long, Bipolar

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• Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.

  Frank Bruno

  Brother, Dad, Aunt

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• Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices.

  Demi Lovato

  Lifestyle Choices, Eating Disorder, Serious

  Twitter post from Mar 2, 2012

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