Mental Illness Quotes - Page 9

• I just felt as though I would never be happy again, and as if I had fallen into a big black hole.

  Brooke Shields

  Black, Holes, Bigs

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• Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.

  Eric McCormack

  Gay, Modern Family, Bipolar

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• Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.

  Hilary Mantel

  Medical, Notes, Artefacts

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• Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.

  Rich Lowry

  Mean, America, People

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• Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.

  Vernon Howard

  Mind, Remember, Stability

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• They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.

  Naomi Judd

  Knowing Who You Are, Numbers, Trying

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• I have come to realize that an early symptom of approaching mental illness is the belief that one's work is terribly important. If you consider your work very important you should take a day off.

  Bertrand Russell

  Success, Teaching, Important

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• It all made sense - terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of partial knowledge. And now the torment of partly knowing had yielded to the infinitely greater terror of knowing precisely

  Flora Rheta Schreiber

  Knowing, Panic, Mental Health

  Flora Rheta Schreiber (1975). “Sybil”

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• It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.

  Garry Kasparov

  Games, Feel Good, Feelings

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• Writing my blog has saved me thousands on therapy.

  Phil Cooke

  Writing, Mental Health, Therapy

  Phil Cooke (2012). “One Big Thing: Discovering What You Were Born to Do”, p.109, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.

  Peter Shilton

  Stress, Talking, Mental Health

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• It's a bit like walking down a long, dark corridor never knowing when the light will go on.

  Neil Lennon

  Dark, Light, Knowing

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• Mania starts off fun, not sleeping for days, keeping company with your brain, which has become a wonderful computer, showing 24 TV channels all about you. That goes horribly wrong after awhile.

  Carrie Fisher

  Depression, Fun, Sleep

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• The lows were absolutely horrible. It was like falling into a manhole and not being able to lift the lid and climb out.

  Linda Hamilton

  Depression, Fall, Able

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• The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.

  Ken Kesey

  Fun, Taken, Having Fun

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• There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Suffering, Bipolar, Needs

  "Catherine Zeta-Jones: 'There Is No Need to Suffer Silently'". People Magazine Interview, people.com. April 20, 2011.

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• It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.

  George Michael

  Believe, Illness, Curse

  "There was so much death" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2005.

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• Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself.

  Richard G. Scott

  Disappointment, Sadness, Events In Life

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• One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own innocence self, will still dream horrid dreams, and mutter unmentionable thoughts.

  Herman Melville

  Depression, Dream, Thinking

  Pierre bk. 4 (1852)

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• Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon, its focus on the self preventing any other from really counting? Perhaps. Sometimes. Sometimes, even when we are two we are really only one; we can feel nothing but our own bones, our own difficult breaths.

  Lauren Slater

  Depression, Self, Two

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• There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Depression, Inexplicable, Streaks

  Octave Mirbeau (1997). “Torture Garden”, Dedalus Limited

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• I always had a dissociative disorder. But I healed from it over the course of 14 years of big-time therapy. But, you know, I mean, everybody's kind of loony now. So I was kind of a pioneer in the mental illness thing, too.

  Roseanne Barr

  Mean, Years, Pioneers

  "Pioneering Comedian Roseanne Barr on Her Life on Screen as a 'Working-Class Domestic Goddess'". "Democracy NOW!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. July 25, 2011.

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• It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.

  Julia Cameron

  Depression, Crazy, Feels Just

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• Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

  Patty Duke

  Inspiration, Insanity, Mental Health

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.214, Bantam

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• This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspiration, Emotional, Suffering

  Charles R. Swindoll (1994). “Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life”, p.99, Zondervan

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