1,815 Quotes About Mental-illness

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

Mental illness" is among the most stigmatized of categories.' People are ashamed of being mentally ill. They fear disclosing their condition to their friends and confidants-and certainly to their employers.

Do you ever feel as if everything surrounding you is in slow motion, moving through tar? There you are - and there's the world. You're outside staring in the window, observing reality happen, but you don't exist in it. You just watch, and watch. That's how I feel, like the dead butterfly staring back at you through the glass.

Deception' is the word I most associate with anorexia and the treachery which comes from falsehood. The illness appears inviting. It would seem to offer something to those unwary or unlucky enough to suffer from it - friendship, a get-out, or a haven - when, in fact, it is a trap.

I finally understood what could drive kids to show up with guns and shoot up their schools.

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

Once-upon-a-time we buried the memories we didn't want.

She shattered through her horror as if it were a mirror and her sanity were the glinting fragments of broken glass.

Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.