Mental Illness Quotes
People can't listen until they're ready. I sure couldn't. I was, like, deaf to everyone except the thoughts. They were the boss of me.
He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy
Dissociative Disorders have a high rate of responsiveness to therapy and that with proper treatment, their prognosis is quite good.
It is not unusual for subjects diagnosed with a Dissociative Disorder on the SCID-D to be surprised at having their symptoms validated by a clinician who understands the nature of their disorder.
Most people can only sleep with a nice soft pillow I can only sleep with heavy anti psychotics
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
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
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.
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.
The central mechanism of the avoidance mechanism of PTSD is the ego defense of denial
Have you ever suddenly realized it's someone else's mood swing and you're just along for the ride?
The unique stigma of PTSD. The stigma of PTSD remains one of the most formidable barriers to effective care.
The presuming social view that mental health is not as serious as the media says it is, blocks progress. This too is political.
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.
Recovery doesn't mean putting your life on hold. Recovery means holding on so you can live your best life.
The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.
In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.
The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.
Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.
The truth will set you free, they say, but believe me, nothing will set you free.
Though my mental illness is more likened to a big, nasty green monster than something heart-wrenchingly beautiful, I think I have learned many wonderful lessons from my many afflictions.
Even if love were considered a mental illness, that would not prevent it from being a pleasant one.
Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.
I wasn't sure if it was safe for me to be sharing time and space with other people, who all seemed so much gentler and safer and less of a secret to themselves than I felt I was.
Many call it the 1000 yard stare and can't realize the pain when PTSD takes us there
PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free.
It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis, ' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.
But pain's like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There's no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to swim to the surface.
When you have mental illness it's common to be shunned by your family or friends it wouldn't happen if they knew the pain you were in.
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If you want your Demons to go away quit using the words they taught you to say
Am I a mindless fool? My life is a fragment, a disconnected dream that has no continuity. I am so tired of senselessness. I am tired of the music that my feelings sing, the dream music.
Forgive me, " I wrote at the bottom. "I did not think I would break.
She was now drowning in that pool of desires without having any idea about the depth of it.
These stories always take us to some far away places which we can never visit in real life.
They're the perfect loving fam'ly, so adoring...And I love them ev'ry day of ev'ry week.So my son's a little shit, my husband's boring, And my daughter, though a genius, is a freak.
What is in your blood matters, but not as much as what is in your heart.
What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation about illnesses that affect not only individuals, but their families as well.