1,815 Quotes About Mental-illness

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or. you are becoming sane,finally.

It was during those years that I discovered that loving [my father] was like sticking a blade into my own heart. It got me nowhere, except awake in the middle of the night, recalling the years when my father was the strongest, the smartest, the funniest, and I lay curled in my bed, wondering why I had been cheated out of a father who loved me, and one I could love in return.

They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness.

I had people saying 'it's all in your head'. Do you honestly think I want to feel this way?

When we think of addicts, we seldom associate the word discrimination.

I'm often asked why I got out when so many didn't. I've mentioned the high school teacher who stopped me in the hall for my assistance in a school performance. Before that man, whose name is Stan Asher, no one had ever looked at me or spoken to me as though I had value. For me, that's the key. Otherwise, I probably would have gone on believing that I was intrinsically bad, with nothing to offer. I believe that many in that house were never offered a positive image of themselves.

Above all, I learned that if you talked about how your struggles with mental health impacted you or explained why it caused you to be irrational; you sounded like a victim. But, if you took full responsibility and denied the impacts of mental health, you sounded like a monster. It wasn't like these were the only options I had, but they were the only options most people gave me.

Be careful of judging or commenting on things beyond your frame of reference. Let us stop the stigma society has attached to sufferers of mental illness. People should not be negatively perceived because of their mental health status; not from an employment perspective, dating perspective, or any other perspective. The diagnosis is not necessarily the measure of the man!