Mental Illness Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Illness, Treats

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.109, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It was clear: I was sick. I never used to dream. They say in the old days it was the most normal thing in the world to have dreams. Which makes sense: Their whole life was some kind of horrible merry-go-round of green, orange, Buddha, juice. But today we know that dreams point to a serious mental illness. And I know that up to now my brain has checked out chronometrically perfect, a mechanism without a speck of dust.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Dream, Orange, Dust

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.46, Penguin

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• My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.

  Elyn Saks

  Lying, Fortune, Found

  Elyn R. Saks (2007). “The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness”, p.425, Hachette UK

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• Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.

  Iain McGilchrist

  Years, Culture, World

  Iain McGilchrist (2009). “The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World”, p.436, Yale University Press

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• One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.

  Terence McKenna

  Absence, Shamanism, Native

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• Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

  Elyn Saks

  Numbers, Community, Faces

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• A comedian is simply a different kind of therapist. A comedian is a psychologist and a psychiatrist rolled into one. Except I can't prescribe medicine. (You still need a doctorate, which is bullshit.) Okay, so I'm not like a psychiatrist. Fine. But I'm still like a psychologist (except I can't diagnose or treat mental illness).

  Eugene Mirman

  Medicine, Bullshit, Comedian

  Eugene Mirman (2009). “The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life”, p.26, Harper Collins

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed or cliché.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Film, Heavy, Difficult

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• I find human behavior to be fascinating, which is probably why I'm an actor, and I think that there are a lot of dangerous misconceptions about mental illness in our society, and I would like to be a part of remedying that - particularly the stigma that surrounds so many mental illnesses.

  Laura Benanti

  Thinking, Actors, Our Society

  "Laura Benanti used to tell kids she was an Indian princess". Interview with Alex McLevy, tv.avclub.com. February 22, 2016.

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• 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?

  Saint Augustine

  Mind, Command, Monstrous

  "The Confessions of St. Augustine".

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• If we are to believe the evidence from clinical trials there are many effective pharmacological and psychological treatments for mental illness. Epidemiological data, on the other hand, says otherwise.

  Richard Bentall

  Believe, Hands, Data

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Mental illness is a real thing. It has real material consequences for people who suffer from it and at the time even the most biological finding reflects social context in very important ways, and so I think psychiatry is better off looking both at biology and at social context and really trying to think of the relationship between these and I think doctors and patients are better off that way.

  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Real, Thinking, Doctors

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 29, 2010.

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• Countries with the best-resourced medical services have the best outcomes for physical illness (it is better to have a heart attack in Washington or London than in rural Africa) whereas precisely the opposite is the case for mental illness (developing nations with limited psychiatric resources have better outcomes and lower suicide rates).

  Richard Bentall

  Country, Suicide, Heart

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.

  John Darnielle

  People, Diagnosis, Needs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors.

  Karin Slaughter

  Thinking, Environmental Factors, People

  Source: content.time.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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• 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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