Illness Quotes
This is a diseased world in which it is impossible for anyone to be fully human. One way or another, everyone who lives in the modern world is sick or maladjusted.
Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.
It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.
After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.
I wonder if there is anyone who is not depraved. A wearisome thought.I want money. Unless I have it....In my sleep, a natural death!
I swear that I will never cause trouble for anybody, as long as I live!! So please! Nobody cause any trouble for me, either!!
Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes.
The creature who lives inside my brain suggested I do it, ” I offered tentatively. “It was very convincing.
People with OCD including myself, realize that their seemingly uncontrollable behavior is irrational, but they feel unable to stop it.
Often during writing, I am compelled by OCD to delete and rewrite a word or sentence over and over again.
The human being is so complicated in some ways, and yet so simple in others. Sometimes, we need complex medication regimens. Yet, sometimes, we just need a good cry.
Want to do something noble and courageous while you're on this Earth treat the mentally ill like they have some worth.
Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery of our truth about the unique history of our childhood.
There is a dead space between most people and those afflicted with Mental Illness and it's called Understanding
This is what labels do. They stick. If people think you're MAD, then everything you do, everything you think, will have MAD stamped across it.
I get happy and I get sad, just like anybody elsebut they call this a disorder.
Thoughts. Thoughts bombard my head, my brain. My psyche
I think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago.
Been under treatment for PTSD and bipolar since 1992. I’m not ashamed of my illness. I’ve been shunned by many and I feel for those shunned, too.
Many people say that psychiatrists just want to push drugs. Well I seriously have to say, without medication, I’d be locked up in a VA hospital somewhere.
Dissociation is characterized by a disruption of usually integrated functions of memory, consciousness, identity, or perception of the environment.
Certainly, it's important to acknowledge and identify the effects of BPD on your life. It's equally important to realize that it neither dictates who you are nor fixes your destiny.
Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia.
In the terms of 'Mental Illness' Isn't stable a place they put horses that wish to run free?
Speaker says psychology has commandeered "everything hard" and partitioned it from Scripture with the assumption that its causes are biological
I admit I have Mental Illness so please no more 'Fruit Cakes' for Christmas Please
The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of the world but those who fight and win battles that others do not know anything about.
My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.
It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element is lacking which would permit me to continue.
Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.
The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of meaning itself.
Except you cannot outrun insanity, anymore than you can outrun your own shadow.
Sadness wasn't a disease you could catch, as far as I know, but from what I seen, people treated it like it was.
I've come to realize that hunger feels more like home than any tangible structure ever has, or probably ever will. I know now that creating absence is my way of coping with absence.
Another piano falls, but this time it's me— or my lascivious loneliness, or my grab bag of mental instabilities and emotional shortcomings, or whatever.
Who am I fooling? Bad dreams never end. We just pretend they aren’t there.
You are a warrior in a dark forest, with no compass and are unable to tell who the actual enemy is, So you never feel safe ..
My heart is sinking and my chest physically aches from the heavy sadness that it carries within.
Have I gone mad like Anne and no one has the heart to tell me? I wish someone would tell me, I feel crazy enough though.
I sleep and sleep and sleep, yet I still have an unquenchable thirst for it.
A Depressive?' 'Smiles in ballrooms, weeps in bedrooms. Ill in her head.' Olive tapped her temple. 'And here.' She touched her heart.