Illness Quotes
Your mother is going to be fine, " the nurse says. I breathe more easily but the word settles into my stomach. Fine. Was she fine before?
The presuming social view that mental health is not as serious as the media says it is, blocks progress. This too is political.
There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them just to make the music more of a sanctuary.
We have a mental health system that is dominated by political and hidden forces that keep us stagnated and unable to see real, lasting change.
I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor shades confined to the Euclidean prison that is sanity
There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul.
The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she continued to write poetry, she would be all right.
My heart keeps begging me for a reason to keep beating, but I'm running out of lies to tell it
My insides contract- bad. "who are you?" I ask right out loud. And he says what I've been afraid of since I killed Lester's father. Haven't you guessed? I'm you. The real you.
When my mind plays tricks on me I can deal. But when my mind plays tricks on my mind I can not tell what's real
My therapist told me that I over-analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this because of his unhappy relationship with his mother.
This was a characteroloical prelude, but it wasn’t chemical or somatic. It was the anatomy of melancholy, not the anatomy of his brain.
Dying from an aggressive fatal brain tumor is like dying from Alzheimer's disease accelerated one hundred times.
Recovery doesn't mean putting your life on hold. Recovery means holding on so you can live your best life.
Smoking does not make one ill, but worrying makes. Drinking two pegs in the evening would not make you ill, but sleeping with tensions and worries would definitely do that.
I could feel the bite of the autumn air, warning us all of the harsh winter that was on its way.
Doctors are great--as long as you don't need them.
With all due respect to my surgeon, in a perfect world he would be out of a job.
We're famous" iggy whispered so low that Fang could barely hear him."So's Swine Flu" Fang whispered back.
Behind every stressful thought is the desire for things to be other than they are.
You can blame people and situations for your misery, hunger, deprivation and illness, but you are the only person can be blamed for your illiteracy.
The first person I knew who died was Beth March. I cried for three days.
Remember this: You are the expert of your body.
By taking the time to focus on our mental and emotional well-being, we can minimize our triggers and reduce the likelihood of a recurrence.
Dear Whoever-that-just-found-out-that-they-have-a-terminal-illness, don't let that put you down. Technically, we are all dying.
The biggest advice I can give loved ones who are supporting someone navigating a newly diagnosed mental illness is patience, patience, and patience.
We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date.
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.