1,815 Quotes About Mental-illness

May the mentally ill forever find peace and acceptance that they are truly blessed.

Rising from the ashes, I am born again,powerful, exultant, majestic through all the pain.

Not to pry, but would you say you sleep with a lot of people? More than you mean to? Some-times it feels like you don’t want to but can’t stop?” for as long as I can remember. I can’t being to count the beds, the nights when it felt easier just to close my eyes and take it, than to get myself home.

I am strange;I show different things;So pleaseDon’t think I don’t love youBecause the truthIs the opposite

All I have is me, myself and I and we are all getting really tired of each other.

Ataraxia looks like a perfect remedy for stress and anxiety for those who can achieve it. If you persuade yourself that you can deal equitably with every possible incident of life, then you will be able to face life’s complexity and you will always be calm. And is there anything better than inner peace and tranquility?

I found it hard to write the bits where the things that were at first surprising or even shocking became normal incrementally until I couldn't see that they were anything but normal, because everything else had shifted just one centimetre here and one centimetre there, moving at the speed fingernails grow, until finally everything just clicked into exactly the wrong place.

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.

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.