1,815 Quotes About Mental-illness

Sometimes we don't understand and all we can do is try to make it better.

There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't.

Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.

I wake up to nagging alarmsMy depression swarmsGetting up is a fight I want to win against myselfI look at my medication on the shelfIt’s something that will help me get through todayIn the end, I will be the one who will stay

When your heart cries because it wants to be free,But your mind feels as though it is stuck in concrete.This is the reality of those who suffer depression and mental health issues.

When your heart cries because it wants to be free,But your mind feels as though it is stuck in cement.This is the reality of those who suffer depression and mental health issues.

You can't help people like her unless they want to be helped. That's the first law of mental health. You know it, I know it.

At the clinic, they fed us pills like they were biscuits. Those pills made the tongue loose in my head, my left arm numb from the elbow down. Sometimes the world would smoulder at the edges. Patients came and went, people from every kind of background but all with one thing in common: no longer capable of contributing to society, they needed to be kept out of sight: losers, loners, dreamers, freaks; God forbid they ever make it onto a TV screen.

None of us know how to fix ourselves, at least not entirely, not well enough.