Mental Illness Quotes - Page 14

• Countries with the best-resourced medical services have the best outcomes for physical illness (it is better to have a heart attack in Washington or London than in rural Africa) whereas precisely the opposite is the case for mental illness (developing nations with limited psychiatric resources have better outcomes and lower suicide rates).

  Richard Bentall

  Country, Suicide, Heart

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.

  Cory Doctorow

  Years, Drunk, Waiting

  Cory Doctorow (2015). “For The Win”, p.116, Booklassic

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• [I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.

  Sam Harris

  Faith, Religious, Lying

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.72, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us. --"The Content of the Psychoses

  Carl Jung

  Emotional, Psychosis, Sick

  Carl Gustav Jung (2009). “Liber Novus”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Mental illness doesn't choose the most talented or the smartest or the richest or the poorest. It shows no mercy and often arrives like an unexpected storm, dropping an endless downpour on young dreams.

  Steve Lopez

  Dream, Storm, Unexpected

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• It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed or cliché.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Film, Heavy, Difficult

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Rachael Leigh Cook was my leading lady. She was awesome. We loved the show [Perception ]. Again, it was more of a TNT show, because there were crimes that got solved, which [going] back five years ago, was a mandate. But there was something innovative about the mental illness side of it.

  Eric McCormack

  Years, Perception, Sides

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates of recovery from severe mental illness have not improved despite the availability of apparently effective therapies such as antipsychotic drugs.

  Richard Bentall

  War, Recovery, Availability

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• If we are to believe the evidence from clinical trials there are many effective pharmacological and psychological treatments for mental illness. Epidemiological data, on the other hand, says otherwise.

  Richard Bentall

  Believe, Hands, Data

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I find human behavior to be fascinating, which is probably why I'm an actor, and I think that there are a lot of dangerous misconceptions about mental illness in our society, and I would like to be a part of remedying that - particularly the stigma that surrounds so many mental illnesses.

  Laura Benanti

  Thinking, Actors, Our Society

  "Laura Benanti used to tell kids she was an Indian princess". Interview with Alex McLevy, tv.avclub.com. February 22, 2016.

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• In the same way that we want to expand mental health service for people with mental illness, we also need to make sure that our police officers are getting the mental health help they need.

  Brian Lindstrom

  People, Police, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that most of us instinctively avoid people with mental illness.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Thinking, People, Illness

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.

  Joni Mitchell

  Spiritual, Song, Ignorance

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• One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.

  Terence McKenna

  Absence, Shamanism, Native

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• I don't think people talk about mental illness a lot, but they need to know it's OK to talk about how they are feeling. People are afraid of telling the truth because they think it's going to hurt everyone around them. I've kept so much inside that I've literally lost it. I wish more people would get help when they feel like they need it-- not just to look to medicine, but to the support of others.

  Michael Angelakos

  Hurt, Thinking, Medicine

  "Rite of Passion" by Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com.

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• I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person.

  Ben Moody

  Depression, Leader, Band

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• In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Tyrants, Order, Stuff

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• Having to parent your mother or father is a challenge that way too many teens have to deal with. Teens whose parents are dealing with substance abuse, financial hardship, job loss, mental illness and divorce deserve our love, support, and compassion. I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mother, Jobs, Father

  "Laurie Halse Anderson on Her New Book, The Impossible Knife of Memory". Interview with Monica Edinger, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 14, 2014.

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• I don't believe anybody has a right to own any kind of a firearm. I believe in order to obtain a permit to own a firearm, that person should undergo an exhaustive criminal background check. In addition, an applicant should give up his right to privacy and submit his medical records for review to see if the person has ever had a problem with alcohol, drugs or mental illness... The Constitution doesn't count!

  John Silber

  Giving Up, Believe, Gun

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• I can't describe the feeling when I go down - it's down down down and there's never going to be an up again. And whatever was good isn't good any more; white becomes grey, music becomes dictionaries, honey becomes beer and the sky a curdled lemon. There's no caramel anymore.

  John Marsden

  Beer, White, Sky

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• I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in my family.

  Ben Stiller

  Thinking, Guy, Bipolar

  "Stars Who've Battled Bipolar Disorder" by Lauren Schutte, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 13, 2011.

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• Every pore of you is crying and you don't even understand why or what. I actually kind of died and got born again as a result of taking the meds and having a chance to, you know, build a life.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Chance, Kind, Cry

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• Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Illness, Treats

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.109, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness

  Glenn Close

  Thinking, Vocabulary, Our Family

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• You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you.

  Winona Ryder

  Good Day, Bad Day, Mental Health

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