Mental Illness Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon, its focus on the self preventing any other from really counting? Perhaps. Sometimes. Sometimes, even when we are two we are really only one; we can feel nothing but our own bones, our own difficult breaths.

  Lauren Slater

  Depression, Self, Two

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• love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Love Is, Obsessive Compulsive, Disorder

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• One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own innocence self, will still dream horrid dreams, and mutter unmentionable thoughts.

  Herman Melville

  Depression, Dream, Thinking

  Pierre bk. 4 (1852)

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• Those who try to "break on through to the other side" not only cannot predict what they may find there, but are themselves too often broken in the process.

  Charles Shaar Murray

  Depression, Broken, Trying

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• And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.

  John Fowles

  Depression, Mad, Ifs

  John Fowles (1963). “The collector”

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• The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Depression, Soul, Innocent

  Allen Ginsberg, Lewis Hyde (1984). “On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg”, p.391, University of Michigan Press

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• Madness is a kind of mental suicide.

  Stephen King

  Depression, Suicide, Madness

  Stephen King (2016). “Skeleton Crew”, p.504, Simon and Schuster

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• We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Depression, Suicide

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• I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.

  Stephen Fry

  Depression, May

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• My wife, like many women, actually LIKES wrapping things. If she gives you a gift that requires batteries, she wraps the batteries separately, which to me is very close to being a symptom of mental illness.

  Dave Barry

  Funny Christmas, Giving, Wife

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• This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspiration, Emotional, Suffering

  Charles R. Swindoll (1994). “Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life”, p.99, Zondervan

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• Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

  Patty Duke

  Inspiration, Insanity, Mental Health

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.214, Bantam

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• Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

  Publilius Syrus

  Depression, Pain, Mind

  Sententiae

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• I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Depression, Voice, Bipolar

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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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• The lows were absolutely horrible. It was like falling into a manhole and not being able to lift the lid and climb out.

  Linda Hamilton

  Depression, Fall, Able

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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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