Mental Illness Quotes - Page 17

• Lets try to come to a place of compassion about mental illness, in all its forms, and help each other find healing.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Healing, Compassion, Trying

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• When you have mental illness you don't have a plaster or a cast or a crutch, that let everyone know that you have the illness, so people expect the same of you as from anyone else and when you are different they give you a hard time and they think you're being difficult or they think you're being a pain in the ass and they're horrible to you. You spend your life in Ireland trying to hide that you have a mental illness.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Pain, Hard Times, Thinking

  Source: www.stateofmind.it

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• I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Self Esteem, Thinking, People

  Source: www.stateofmind.it

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• If I were to peruse a survey of label options, as they exist now, they either sound like a time bomb disorder or manic depression or Bipolar divide or mental illness. How can I find an identity in that? It certainly isn't something I can bring up in conversation, without a reaction of judgement or even fear.

  Paul Dalio

  Judgement, Bipolar, Identity

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• For people with mental illness, taking care of the body is not an automatic thing. The mind is in such chaos it's hard to come up with a plan. So to people like us, it's more important than ever to follow a regimen.

  Linda Hamilton

  People, Mind, Important

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses.

  Elyn Saks

  Motivation, Inspiration, People

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• I want to destigmatize the words mental illness.

  Linda Hamilton

  Want, Illness

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know?

  Moby

  Self Worth, Opinion, Stranger

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

  Oscar Levant

  Inspirational, Funny, Depression

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think we need to talk about mental illness a lot more. People complain about tax dollars and say we don't have the money. But if we can't put some of our investments, or some of our money back into humans, isn't that where it all begins?

  Nia Long

  Thinking, People, Complaining

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Reality, Needs, Awful

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• True, God hates Alzheimer's, spinal cord injury, mental illness, autism, and the rest (these conditions are all symptoms of the Fall). Yet he permits these things to accomplish something far more precious in our lives: patience, endurance, compassion for others who hurt, and refined faith and trust in God, to name a few.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Hurt, Hate, Fall

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Mental illness was a family secret. This patient had four children grow up in foster homes, and they never knew her. It was heart-wrenching for her granddaughter to find this out.

  Sean Moran

  Children, Growing Up, Home

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• The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

  Gary L. Francione

  Theory Of Evolution, Characteristics, Inconsistent

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• Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of loyalty to a particular nation, a sense of loyalty to a moral code, and strict adherence to concepts of right and wrong. Chisholm has been obsessed for years with the idea that instilling concepts of right and wrong, love of country and morality in children by their parents is the paramount evil.

  John A. Stormer

  Loyalty, Country, Children

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• The very term ['mental disease'] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more have a mental 'disease' than you can have a purple idea or a wise space". Similarly, there can no more be a "mental illness" than there can be a "moral illness." The words "mental" and "illness" do not go together logically. Mental "illness" does not exist, and neither does mental "health." These terms indicate only approval or disapproval of some aspect of a person's mentality (thinking, emotions, or behavior).

  E. Fuller Torrey

  Wise, Mistake, Thinking

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• What we're seeing at the moment is people being radicalised or adopting Islamist, murderous Islamist ideology very, very quickly so that you have people that are not on the counterterrorism radar screen who then often, as a result of mental illness, will then attach themselves to this murderous ideology and then act very quickly.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  People, Moments, Results

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.

  Alice Miller

  Struggle, Acceptance, Unique

  "The Drama of the Gifted Child". Book by Alice Miller, 1979.

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• These Jews who run things, who are producing this mental illness ­­teenage suicide...all these Jewish sicknesses...that's nothing new. The Talmud's full of things like sex with boys and girls.

  David Duke

  Girl, Suicide, Running

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• People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

  John Forbes Nash

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "Doing Psychiatry Wrong: A Critical and Prescriptive Look at a Faltering Profession" by René J. Muller, (p. 62), 2013.

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• ... I went through a very lethargic period ... I was just sort of getting through every night and every day.

  Patty Duke

  Night, Periods, Lethargic

  Patty Duke, Kenneth Turan (1988). “Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke”, Bantam

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• Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and addiction, which leaves you gasping from shock and laughing moments later: this is both the beauty and unique nature of her storytelling. With brilliance and courage, the author's brave and candid chronicle travels where no other memoir about mental illness and addiction has gone before. The Third Sunrise is an incredible triumph and Natalie Jeanne Champagne is without a doubt the most important new voice in this genre.

  Andy Behrman

  Pain, Unique, Agony

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• I was just sort of moving through time.

  Patty Duke

  Moving, Rough Times, Illness

  Patty Duke, Kenneth Turan (1988). “Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke”, Bantam

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• Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition in what might be termed a flash of divine enlightenment.

  Clifford Whittingham Beers

  Suffering, Enlightenment, Degrees

  Clifford Whittingham Beers (2015). “A Mind That Found Itself”, p.61, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• To be on the safe and humane side, let every relative and friend ... remember the golden rule, which has never been suspended with respect to the insane. Go to see them, treat them sanely, write to them, keep them informed about the home circle; let not your devotion flag, nor accept any repulse.

  Clifford Whittingham Beers

  Home, Writing, Relatives And Friends

  Clifford Whittingham Beers (2015). “A Mind That Found Itself”, p.46, Sheba Blake Publishing

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