Mental Illness Quotes - Page 5

• We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious and are of infinite value.

  Patricia Deegan

  Inspirational, People, Firsts

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• The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings.

  Patricia Deegan

  Inspirational, Recovery, Simple

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• The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

  Ashley Montagu

  Systematic, Institutions, Units

  "The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson",

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• Even with all that - excellent treatment, wonderful family and friends, supportive work environment - I did not make my illness public until relatively late in life, and that's because the stigma against mental illness is so powerful that I didn't feel safe with people knowing. If you hear nothing else today, please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics'. There are people with schizophrenia, and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they may be your neighbor, they may be your friend, they may be your coworker.

  Elyn Saks

  Children, Powerful, Knowing

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• Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And-how many of us do know it? ... Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I suppose only a few are aware of all this. Isolated persons here and there. But the broad masses-what do they think? All these hundreds of thousands in this city, here. Do they imagine that they live in a sane world? Or do they guess, glimpse, the truth...?

  Philip K. Dick

  Depression, Thinking, Cities

  Philip K. Dick (2007). “Four novels of the 1960s”

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• It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.

  Adam Haslett

  Depression, Thinking, Achievement

  Adam Haslett (2002). “You are Not a Stranger Here”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• ... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared, sick, lethargic, worst of all, not wanting to cope. You saw visions of yourself in a straightjacket, and a drain on the family, murdering your mother in actuality, killing the edifice of love and respect built up over the years in the hearts of other people.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Mother, Heart

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.87, Anchor

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• Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence on a noxious private planet they can never leave, and where they can receive no visitors.

  Andrew Solomon

  Depression, Loneliness, Fading

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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• But what is madness, if not being able to control your own mind?

  Lady Victoria Leatham

  Depression, Mind, Able

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• The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.

  Peter Høeg

  Depression, Pain, Mind

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.501, Macmillan

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• And all that weirdness isn't just going on outside. It's in you too, right now, growing in the dark like magic mushrooms. Call it the Thing in the Cellar. Call it the Blow Lunch Factor. Call it the Loony Tunes File. I think of it as my private dinosaur, huge, slimy, and mindless, stumbling around in the stinking swamp of my subconscious, never finding a tar pit big enough to hold it.

  Stephen King

  Depression, Dark, Blow

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• Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Stars, Writing

  Sylvia Plath (2000). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962”, Anchor

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• The disturbed individual who believes himself to be Christ, or to receive messages from God, is something of a cliche in our society. Ever since Sigmund Freud, many people have associated religiosity with neurosis and mental illness.

  Robert Winston

  Believe, People, Neurosis

  "The Story of God". Book by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. 2005.

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• If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Sad, Depression, Moving

  FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from May 29, 2011

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• Maybe I'm a bit of a psycho-but I'd rather be psycho than boring.

  Julie Delpy

  Depression, Psycho, Boring

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• There's no straight line between closing the mental institutions and filling the prisons but there is some sort of relationship. And it's hard to tell how much mental illness among prisoners came in with them and how much is because of prison. I just imagine the real tragedy is there's probably a huge number of people who went in a little bit f - ked up and left completely insane because it's just a horrible treatment.

  Peter Moskos

  Real, People, Tragedy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• A time will come, and soon, when, from mere habit, you will echo the scream of every delirious wretch that harbors near you; then you will pause, clasp your hands on your throbbing head, and listen with horrible anxiety whether the scream proceeded from you or them.

  Charles Robert Maturin

  Depression, Hands, Echoes

  Charles Robert Maturin (2008). “Melmoth the Wanderer: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.75, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train.

  William Godwin

  Depression, Mind, Loathing

  William Godwin (1831). “Caleb Williams”, p.347

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• I have come to realize that an early symptom of approaching mental illness is the belief that one's work is terribly important. If you consider your work very important you should take a day off.

  Bertrand Russell

  Success, Teaching, Important

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• Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself.

  Richard G. Scott

  Disappointment, Sadness, Events In Life

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• It all made sense - terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of partial knowledge. And now the torment of partly knowing had yielded to the infinitely greater terror of knowing precisely

  Flora Rheta Schreiber

  Knowing, Panic, Mental Health

  Flora Rheta Schreiber (1975). “Sybil”

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• Writing my blog has saved me thousands on therapy.

  Phil Cooke

  Writing, Mental Health, Therapy

  Phil Cooke (2012). “One Big Thing: Discovering What You Were Born to Do”, p.109, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.

  Peter Shilton

  Stress, Talking, Mental Health

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• It's a bit like walking down a long, dark corridor never knowing when the light will go on.

  Neil Lennon

  Dark, Light, Knowing

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• Mania starts off fun, not sleeping for days, keeping company with your brain, which has become a wonderful computer, showing 24 TV channels all about you. That goes horribly wrong after awhile.

  Carrie Fisher

  Depression, Fun, Sleep

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