Mental Illness Quotes
Soon, when all is well, you're going to look back on this period of your life and be so glad that you never gave up.
They say the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, I believe you can say the same thing about the distance between good and evil.
More than GM Foods I am afraid of GMM People. Genetically and Mentally Mutated People. The Entire Ecosystem Mutates.
Staying for your children is noble. However, staying with someone that teaches your children that "selective" evilness is okay is mental illness.
Regret is a painful thing. Few people understand that there are three important things that leave us and can never return. Words. Time. Opportunity. These are things we can never get back.
It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.
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.
Thoughts. Thoughts bombard my head, my brain. My psyche
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.
Dissociation is characterized by a disruption of usually integrated functions of memory, consciousness, identity, or perception of the environment.
Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.
My heart is sinking and my chest physically aches from the heavy sadness that it carries within.
You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. We were created to be victorious.
Depression is our way of telling ourselves that something is seriously wrong and needs working through and changing.
It's so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse.
That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren't ready, then you weren't ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that.
We got through it. Haven made excuses for me to friends, and made an appointment with a terrific doctor, who put me on Effexor, 150 milligrams a day, enough to get my brain straightened out.
Prideful fool. It hurt his feelings that he couldn’t make my crazy go away. You know how men are. Always trying to fix things can’t be fixed.
the essential feature of the Dissociative Disorders is a disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception
Thing was, after the hurricane, life went on. You had to buy milk, fix the broken windows, play some Warhammer, discuss some girls. Wow!
None of us know how to fix ourselves, at least not entirely, not well enough.
But, darling, I need you to know, you loving me will not heal me. Please realize, I already know that. And I do not expect it to.
What’s more insane? Hearing imaginary voices? Or not hearing the real ones?
John raised an eyebrow. “So you wouldn’t date someone like you?”“Oh, hell, no. I’m insane, but that would be nuts.
Rising from the ashes, I am born again, powerful, exultant, majestic through all the pain.
You want to be there for me but an anxiety attack is a solitary activity.
This is how you explain how you feel: broken words and hard truths.
It is a rare person who can cut himself off from mediate and immediate relations with others for long spaces of time without undergoing a deterioration in personality.
But Hey, Guess What Crazy means I'm not liablefor my actions. So screw it, I'll go home, propped up on Prozac against distractions
The shrinks call it Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. I call it hell. The demons are waiting in each corner, ready to drag me back to the battlefield.- Puncture Wounds (2014)
The only time it's hopeless is when you're dead! Long as you're alive, you can get better - you can make it better.
She fails to see who I am, even, for her eyes do not, will not, take me in. Instead they transmit a powerful message. She is like a billboard flashing, starkly: 'Keep Out'.
Mental health is usually the last place people go when they think about someone being sick.
My skin is so thin that the innocent words of others burn holes right through me.
Unfortunately, mental health is so misunderstood that some people think you have to be crazy to need to speak to a therapist.