Mental Illness Quotes - Page 12

• Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

  Elyn Saks

  Powerful, Mind, Defense

  "A tale of mental illness — from the inside". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June, 2012.

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• Men, I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. … Gender equality is your issue, too. … I've seen young men suffering from mental illness, unable to ask for help, for fear it would make them less of a men—or less of a man. I've seen men made fragile and insecure by a distorted sense of what constitutes male success. Men don't have the benefits of equality, either.

  Emma Watson

  Insecure, Opportunity, Men

  United Nations Address on Gender Equality, delivered 20 September 2014

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• So, because I have a mental illness I should disappear and hide? Ever since I went into hospital, all I have heard and read about is people telling me what they think I should do.

  Charlotte Dawson

  Thinking, People, Disappear

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• We are a conspiracy of hope and we are pressing back against the strong tide of oppression which for centuries has been the legacy of those of us who are labelled with mental illness. We are refusing to reduce human beings to illnesses.

  Patricia Deegan

  Inspirational, Strong, Tides

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• While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness.

  Kate Cann

  Obsession, Oblivion, Appearance

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• When I started writing Tales of the City I was one year away from being a mental illness. It wasn't until 1975 that the American Psychiatric Association took homosexuality off the list of mental illnesses - and in many states, including the state of North Carolina where I grew up, homosexuality was a crime. An arrestable crime. It still is, in many parts of the world.

  Armistead Maupin

  Writing, Years, Cities

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• A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

  Franz Liszt

  Ideas, Common Sense, Quality

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• But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind- less flavor to life. Van Gogh, Beethoven, Edgar Allen Poe, Sylvia Plath, Pink Floyd (the early Piper at the Gates of Dawn line up), scientific breakthroughs, spiritual revolution, utopian visions, zany nationalism that kills millions- wait, that’s the bad kind. Tim Dorsey (Hurricane Punch)

  Tim Dorsey

  Spiritual, Waiting, Vision

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• I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with my body than something wrong with my head, but the idea seemed so involved and wearisome that I didn’t say anything. I only burrowed down further in the bed.

  Sylvia Plath

  Ideas, Say Anything, Bed

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.93, Hamilton Books

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• You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

  Carrie Fisher

  Order, Difficult Situations, Survivor

  Carrie Fisher (2005). “The Best Awful: A Novel”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• I hear they feed you in Sing Sing,” Evie muttered. “Three squares a day.” “Evangeline,” Will said with a sigh. “Charity begins at home.” “So does mental illness.

  Libba Bray

  Home, Squares, Doe

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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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• The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache. This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Depression, Roots, World

  Interview with Eric Nordern, Playboy, September 1968.

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• If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it as a crime, and driving it underground, we ought to recognize it for what it is: it's a mental illness, it's a psychiatric condition which ought to be treated sympathetically by psychiatrists and social workers.

  Tommy Douglas

  Country, Attitude, Driving

  Tommy Douglas' remarks during the debate on the proposed Omnibus bill to decriminalize homosexuality, 1968.

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• If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes, or even insanity, it may lead him; and yet that way, as he grows more resolute and faithful, his road lies.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Depression, Lying, Future

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.272, Penguin

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• Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.

  John C. Maxwell

  Success, Attitude, Thinking

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.76, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

  Henrik Tikkanen

  Crazy, Insanity, Intelligence

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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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• 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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• I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.

  Kirstie Alley

  Believe, Eating Disorder, Screw Ups

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• You can have a disordered relationship with food, but to have an eating disorder is indicative of a mental illness, which I think needs treatment and recognition in a different way.

  Troian Bellisario

  Thinking, Eating Disorder, Different

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• What I want is to talk about how someone raised Muslim struggles with the same stuff that everyone else theoretically could. Obviously, the particulars are different, but everybody can sympathize with being forced to answer for their identity, the colour of their skin or their religion. A lot of people struggle with mental illness or romance or failed marriages - these are all parts of my own struggle. I read them through the lens of Islam because that's the particular language I grew up in, but the grammar is universal.

  Haroon Moghul

  Struggle, People, Romance

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• [It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

  Richard Dawkins

  People, Religion, Atheism

  Richard Dawkins (2006). “The Selfish Gene”, p.330, Oxford University Press, USA

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• With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that go from being too important to being not important at all.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Feelings, Important, Tricks

  Mark Vonnegut, M.D. (2010). “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir”, p.124, Delacorte Press

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• For years now, I've been talking about the rise of the extreme right in the U.S. Since 9/11, white nationalists have killed more Americans on U.S. soil than any foreign or domestic terrorist group combined. It's something we don't categorize as terrorism or extremism. We often brush it off as mental illness - things like Oak Creek Wisconsin - and these people are certainly tied to white supremacy, have written manifestos. We've got a major problem in not calling that terrorism.

  Christian Picciolini

  People, Problem, Terrorism

  Source: chicagoist.com

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