Mental Illness Quotes

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
Rita Mae Brown

Best, Friends, Suffering

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
Fran Lebowitz

Love, Romantic, Someone

For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away.
Richard J. Codey

Long, Problems, Away

My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.
Jane Pauley

Goal, Cancer, Illness

They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.
Naomi Judd

Time, Yourself, Trying

I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
Daniel Craig

Life, Live, Someone

I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.
Clara Hughes

Experience, Help, Depression

I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
Ornette Coleman

Food, Book, Remember

Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist.
Thomas Szasz

Same, Illness, Exist

Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of someone homeless. 'Look at that guy - he's crazy. He looks dangerous.' Well, he's on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home.
Eric McCormack

Home, Crazy, Live

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.
Anthony Storr

Place, Wrong, Between

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.
Richard Carlson

Stress, Nothing, Illness

Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.
Eric McCormack

Life, Change, Family

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.
Thomas Szasz

Nature, Show, Purpose

There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.
Thomas Szasz

Illness, Mental, Hence

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.
Joni Mitchell

Life, Religion, Ignorance

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
Margaret Atwood

United, Paranoid, National

I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Famous, Idiot, Both

I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.
Kirstie Alley

Illness, Mental, Eating

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
Alastair Campbell

Point, Four, Illness

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
Karl Kraus

Illness, Mental, Therapy

What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
Kate Millett

God, Mean, Hopeless

The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.
Polly Toynbee

Poverty, Last, Anyone

Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day you die. I am trying so hard to break mine, but it is not easy. It is my toughest fight ever.
Frank Bruno

Powerful, Fight, Hard

Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.
Frank Bruno

Dad, Happen, Brother

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.
Alastair Campbell

Film, Star, Media

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
Gail Porter

Down, Break, Illness

Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.
Rich Lowry

Before, America, Treat

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.
Francis Parker Yockey

Hard, Talk, Facts

Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk about it.
Lisa Gardner

Young, Talk, Kids

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