Mental Illness Quotes - Page 7

• The trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of mental illness more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in their bonnets. And because they chronically lack any critical faculty to examine and evaluate their ideas, and because they are pathologically unwilling to consider the opinions of others, and most of all, because socialism is a mindset that regards the individual and his rights as insignificant, compared to whatever the socialist believes the group needs, terrible, terrible things happen when socialists acquire power.

  L. Neil Smith

  Philosophy, Believe, Rights

  "Cambodian Road Trip". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 15, 2009.

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• If people can talk about having breast cancer, why can't people who have mental illness talk about mental illness? Until we're able to do that, we're not going to be treated with the same kind of respect for our diseases as other people.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Cancer, People, Disease

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

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• As no one knew much about my mental illness, a lot of people had the attitude that I had the capability to 'kick it' and get better instantly. This was the most frustrating attitude for me.

  Andy Behrman

  Attitude, People, Get Better

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• A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood.

  Ben H. Winters

  Depression, Blue, Blood

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• The sooner you 'settle' the sooner you'll be allowed home" was the ruling logic; and "if you can't adapt yourself to living in a mental hospital how do you expect to be able to live 'out in the world'?" How indeed?

  Janet Frame

  Home, World, Able

  Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”

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• As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of the richest learning and humanizing experiences life offers.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Schizophrenia, Worst, Wells

  Mark Vonnegut (2011). “The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity”, p.223, Seven Stories Press

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• To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Morning, Crazy, Snakes

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• What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist?

  Peter D. Kramer

  Taken, Artist, What If

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• So long as men denounce each other as mentally sick (homosexual, addicted, insane, and so forth) so that the madman can always be considered the Other, never the Self mental illness will remain an easily exploitable concept, and Coercive Psychiatry a flourishing institution.

  Thomas Szasz

  Men, Self, Long

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1997). “The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement”, p.170, Syracuse University Press

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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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• I cling to nowhere until I fall - the crash of Nothing.

  Emily Dickinson

  Depression, Fall, Crash

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• Finding a calm place inside myself through meditation kind of helped me to get over a lot of mental illness ... it's just been a really great thing in my life.

  Roseanne Barr

  Meditation, Calm, Kind

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• Schizophrenia --its nature, etiology, and the kind of therapy to use for it--remains one of the most puzzling of the mental illnesses. The theory of schizophrenia presented here is based on communications analysis, and specifically on the Theory of Logical Types. From this theory and from observations of schizophrenic patients is derived a description, and the necessary conditions for, a situation called the "double bind"--a situation in which no matter what a person does, he "can't win." It is hypothesized that a person caught in the double bind may develop schizophrenic symptoms

  Gregory Bateson

  Communication, Winning, Doe

  Gregory Bateson (1972). “Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology”, p.201, University of Chicago Press

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• Depression makes you seek lonely places, and that is what I started doing during the second semester of my first year in college. The black creek, the woods, the empty fields, the old cemetery-anywhere away from people, away from their critical eyes. I would seek out these places, choosing routes and times that would mean I could avoid as many people as possible.

  Samantha Abeel

  Depression, Lonely, Mean

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• Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.

  Louise Hart

  Self Esteem, Important, Essentials

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• Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it with all the worst aspects of our society - violence, drunkenness, drugs, racism, exploitation, greed and stupidity; and that's just for starters.

  Simon Heffer

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• I believe in such a thing called mental illness that leads to some evil.

  Robert Jeffress

  Believe, Evil, I Believe

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

  Publilius Syrus

  Depression, Pain, Mind

  Sententiae

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

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Depression, Suicide

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• Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Depression, Long, Earth

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.93, Vintage

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• My father, who suffered from hardening of the arteries, was diagnosed as having that tragic thief of the mind, Alzheimer's.

  Robyn Carr

  Father, Alzheimer's, Mind

  robyn carr (1992). “mind tryst”

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• A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Depression, Men, Hands

  D. H. Lawrence, Keith Sagar (1986). “Selected Poetry”, ePenguin

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• Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

  Dorothea Dix

  Insanity, Humanity, Fever

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• Above all, Alzheimer wanted the medical world to recognize that mental illnesses have an undeniable material component. There was an obvious political reason for taking such a position because it could then be established that dementia-like conditions are not part of the spiritual/theological domain, but undeniably biological in origin and therefore not attributable with moral implications.

  Margaret M. Lock

  Spiritual, Political, World

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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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