1,815 Quotes About Mental-illness

I repeat one of my mantras. 'This is not happening. This is not real. This did not happen to you. That was someone else.

That's what you won't find on Google," I wanted to tell Doctor Gilyard today. "Who I used to be.

Saying ‘I’m fine’ is a lot easier than trying to explain the inexplicable and illogical feelings that constantly stalk me, and that is why the general public will never fully comprehend what people with a mental illness go through daily.

Sometimes my anxiety hits toxic levels. Many times, I don’t know whether what I’m experiencing is an anxiety, panic, or heart attack. It’s like my heart is pounding so intensely that it’s about to burst through my chest.

There are days when I give up on myself, when I’m exhausted from dragging along the demotivated, indecisive, hopeless, tired, and restless version of myself. I wish there was a way to leave him entirely behind, or at least set him aside for a little while. Some days I don’t know what to do with myself anymore.

Everyone keeps telling me that I shouldn't feel guilty—but it doesn't seem to help much. What you feel is what you feel.

If you want your Demons to go away quit using the words they taught you to say

We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think - at least beyond the confines of what's needed to do the job. By any proper civilized standard (but what does that mean now?) we are objects of horror. But our nerves are completely steady. And we are still alive.

We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind.