Illness Quotes

Most people can only sleep with a nice soft pillow I can only sleep with heavy anti psychotics

I was a schizophrenic, not a damn invalid.

I am but a man attempting to be graceful as I slowly decend into madness.

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.

There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.

I've accepted the fact I have mental illness but when my imaginary friends start calling me crazy that's where I draw the line

You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees a bottomless pit in yours.

They all think medicine should be magic, and they become mad at me when it's not.

I begin to wonder if David was like me. Seeing monsters everywhere and realizing there aren't enough slingshots in the world to get rid of them.

If you can still wipe your own backside then life's not that bad!

Because of my bipolar condition I will have to take anti psychotics until I die but hopefully a handful of them won't be the last thing I taste

When you read my poems or quotes remember you're stepping into the mind that steps outside of me

We cannot institutionalize helping the "victims" of personal disasters.

I do not have a split mind. I am not different people. I am myself, the same self I have always been, the one person I can never escape.

It got to the point where it became logical: if a woman was fiercely intelligent, outspoken and passionate, I’d look towards her arms for the scars. They were almost always there.

We all feel inadequate very often. It’s only when it gets chronic that it is disturbing to one’s emotions and can get out of hand and make you pretty damn miserable.

You know how they say that if you think you might be going crazy, it’s proof that you’re not? Well, it’s a lie. One of many they tell you about mental illness.

Successful writing is a slow, daily, meticulous form of mental illness.

Etta, it could be everything, it could be nothing, what you’re making up. You shouldn’t let that bother you.

Don't worry, everyone is mentally ill, they just haven’t figured out a name for yours yet.

Sometimes the people around you won't understand your journey. They don't need to, it's not for them.

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness.

Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still

I had people saying 'it's all in your head'. Do you honestly think I want to feel this way?

Denial and minimizing is often seen in genuine PTSD and, hence, should be a target of detection and measurement.

The central mechanism of the avoidance mechanism of PTSD is the ego defense of denial

Forgive me for being chipper, but despair is desperately dull.

I’m afraid to see a psychiatrist about the voices in my head. She might know who they are.

Genius by birth, Bipolar by design

1 in 5 people have dandruff. 1 in 4 people have mental health problems. I've had both.

The voices in my head that tell the other voices what to do are mean.

There will always be people afraid of the monsters in the night. They are usually the ones that look for them because they have proven they exist in themselves.

This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.

Have you ever suddenly realized it's someone else's mood swing and you're just along for the ride?

Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know.

The unique stigma of PTSD. The stigma of PTSD remains one of the most formidable barriers to effective care.

My reflection followed me mercilessly in mirrors, car doors, shop windows. I lived in a world of circus mirrors, the grotesque distortion of my body looking back at me everywhere.

Bipolar is an illness not a hopeless destination it can be maintained with proper medication

It's not about blame or wallowing...you are all molded by so much more than a dysfunctional past, and you must ultimately take responsibility for creating the life you want.

If every Genius has a touch of Madness, does every Normal person have a touch of Ignorance ?

Every one wants to be a Genius. But only the brave choose to go mad to get there...

Life wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t supposed to be. Eternal beauty could not exist if it were not for the face of a fatal flaw.

There are such things as delusions, but not every unlikely vision that the mentally ill have is imaginary.

A nightmare has taken hold of my body. Lunacy has dug its way inside my mind.

Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.

A child's death isn't always necessary for a mother to grieve.

I rehearsed Foucault's argument that the presence of madness on our doorstep is good for us, for it reminds us the life we live is only one among several human possibilities.

Cause I'd rather stay hereWith all the madmenThan perish with the sadmen roaming freeAnd I'd rather play hereWith all the madmenFor I'm quite content they're all as saneAs me

While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.

Intellegence is a disease