Mentally Ill Quotes - Page 3

• I'm either mentally ill or Jewish. I can't sometimes tell the difference.

  Roseanne Barr

  Differences, Sometimes, Ill

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• Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

  Alan Dershowitz

  People, Insane, Ill

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• Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with an allegiance toward our elected officials, toward our founding fathers, toward our institutions, toward the preservation of this form of government that we have. Patriotism, nationalism, and sovereignty, all that proves that children are sick because a truly well individual is one who has rejected all of those things, and is truly the international child of the future.

  Chester Middlebrook Pierce

  Children, Father, School

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• I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being treated for his illness and, as a result, becoming more and more ill.

  Mike DeWine

  Becoming, Illness, Violent

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• We have to enforce the laws we've already got, make sure that we're keeping guns out of the hands of criminals, those who are mentally ill. I also share your belief that weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don't belong on our streets. And so what I'm trying to do is to get a broader conversation about how do we reduce the violence generally.

  Barack Obama

  War, Gun, Hands

  Second 2012 presidential debate, www.cbsnews.com. October 17, 2012.

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• I’m going to be mentally ill in fifteen years, and that’s why my husband doesn’t want to be around me.

  Jay Asher

  Husband, Years, Fifteen

  Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler (2012). “The Future of Us”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only the dangerous but also the inconvenient—people who are mentally ill, people who are addicts, people who are poor and uneducated and unskilled. Meanwhile the ghetto in the outside world is a prison as well, and a much more difficult one to escape from than this correctional compound. In fact, there is basically a revolving door between our urban and rural ghettos and the formal ghetto of our prison system.

  Piper Kerman

  Ghetto, Government, Doors

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• How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame — from a national media machine that rewards them with the wall-to-wall attention and sense of identity that they crave — while provoking others to try to make their mark? A dozen more killers? A hundred? More? How can we possibly even guess how many, given our nation's refusal to create an active national database of the mentally ill?

  Wayne LaPierre

  Wall, Media, Wings

  National Rifle Association Press Conference Announcing "National School Shield" Program Following the Newton, Connecticut Shootings, delivered 21 December 2012

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• My new catchphrase is: 'Pull yourself together.' I've done the inner child, I've had analysis, I've decided that unless you're mentally ill and need support, it's up to you.

  Sheila Hancock

  Life, Children, Support

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• In America it is not considered to be mentally ill when a woman advances on her prey in a discotheque setting with hardy cocktails present.

  Madonna Ciccone

  America, Cocktails, Prey

  "I am a Tip-Top Starlet" by Garry Trudeau, content.time.com. June 24, 2001.

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• Most Radiohead songs are actually REM songs, I just have a mentally ill child read the lyrics aloud and then I change the melodies a bit.

  Thom Yorke

  Song, Children, Radiohead

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• Science teachers and the mentally ill, that's all Jazz is for.

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Teacher, Humor

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• Psychiatrists say that 1 of 4 people are mentally ill. Check 3 friends. If they are okay, you're it.

  Henny Youngman

  God, People, Stupidity

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• Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with bizarre details and disturbing facts, Andrew Scull's book offers fresh and compelling insights on the way medicine's inability to solve the mystery of madness has both haunted and shaped two thousand years of culture. Required reading for anyone who has ever gone to a shrink!

  Dirk Wittenborn

  Reading, Book, Medicine

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• 15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I'm imitating the mentally ill.

  Thom Yorke

  Dancing, Trying, Looks

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• I don't meet many people that are evil. I meet human beings who are flawed, who are mentally ill and have enormous problems, but I don't think I've ever met someone who was a totally dark energy that had no humanity or sense of love or affection for anything in their life. That's very rare.

  Richard Gere

  Dark, Thinking, People

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. September 20, 2012.

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• I think you get mentally ill being homeless. Most of the bag ladies wind up mentally ill pretty quickly - what people would call paranoid - because they are in such danger. I don't know if it's really paranoia because they are in great danger. Terrible things happen to them, and they lose everything. How could they not become at the very least severely depressed?

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Thinking, Wind, People

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• Well, I think it's important to stand as an advocate for the mentally ill.

  Linda Hamilton

  Thinking, Important, Ill

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. October 14, 2005.

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• Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.

  Rich Lowry

  Children, Parent, Violence

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• Children of the mentally ill learn early on how not to be a bother, especially if they grew up with neglect. As my sister insisted once, when she was in severe pain after injuring her ankle, 'This isn't me! This is not who I am!

  Mira Bartok

  Children, Pain, Who I Am

  Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace: A Memoir”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience

  Tim Minchin

  Genius, Ill, Audience

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• Anxious. Intriguing word. It literally means, "to be divided" or "distracted." It conveys the idea of being so mentally ill at ease that you cannot do what you need to do because you are so distracted in your thinking.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

  Charles R. Swindoll (2012). “Perfect Trust”, p.49, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The dumping of the mentally ill, full of these new psychiatric drugs, into the streets is a scandal. It's been carried furthest in New York, where whole sections of the decayed Upper West Side are being filled with pensioners and psychotic patients on stelazine, lithium carbonate, and everything else under the sun. They can't diagnose the patient, so they give him the whole psychiatric pharmacopoeia at once, and he walks around in a psychotic trance beautifully painted all over with petrochemicals.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  New York, Giving, Drug

  "An Autobiographical Novel". Book by Kenneth Rexroth. Chapter: "Pysch Ward", www.bopsecrets.org. 1991.

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• But sometimes I'd feel more fulfilled making Christmas cards with the mentally ill.
  I want to live and I want to love.
  I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of.

  Steven Morrissey

  Christmas Card, Cards, Want

  "Song: 'Frankly Mr. Shankly'". 1986.

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• I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.

  Samantha Morton

  Believe, Thinking, Mind

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