Mental Illness Quotes
Valentine reminds us that to be fully human is to be both a story teller and a story dweller."--- Christina Meldrum, author of Madapple and Amaryllis in Blueberry
You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.
The one thing that we need to escape is our minds, but our minds are the one thing that we cannot escape from.
The words ‘I love you’ are worthless when you don’t know who the 'I' is in that statement.
Hope can be foolish or misguided, but there was no such thing as false hope. Hope was always true even when there was no evidence to support its claim.” - Liam
Love is not for thrill-seekers, dreamers, or children with short attention spans. And you, son, fit into all three of those categories.
Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.
Instead of saying, "I'm damaged, I'm broken, I have trust issues" say "I'm healing, I'm rediscovering myself, I'm starting over.
Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ..
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.
Light existed all along. Of course it did. Who says it didn't because I couldn't see it?
I wanted to be dead. No. That's not quite right. I didn't want to be dead, I just didn't want to be alive.
She had not been herself for weeks, yet no one noticed. She knew this feeling, it creeps up like sliding slowly into the darkness. Some days she clung on, other days she let herself slip further.
In retrospect, crappy chemicals in my brain were working overtime, driving me to destroy myself, like that thing that makes lemmings throw them¬selves over a cliff.
God only knew what ran underneath the fierce self-discipline and emotional control that had come with my upbringing. But the cracks were there, I knew it, and they frightened me.
Even when everything's going your way you can still be sad. Or anxious. Or uncomfortably numb. Because you can't always control your brain or your emotions even when things are perfect.
Waking up breaks my heart.Getting dressed breaks my arms.Joining the crowd breaks my legs.Letting someone in...does me in.
So far gone am I in the dark side of earth, that its other side, the theoretic bright one, seems but uncertain twilight to me.