1,815 Quotes About Mental-illness

What’s more insane? Hearing imaginary voices? Or not hearing the real ones?

Sanity is over-rated. It lacks color.

We don’t go in for that psychodynamic stuff around here. Those guys will talk you to death, clean out your bank account while they are doing it, and then invite you to come back and express your innermost feelings about being broke.

John raised an eyebrow. “So you wouldn’t date someone like you?”“Oh, hell, no. I’m insane, but that would be nuts.

In 1949, neurologist Egas Moniz (1874-1955) received a Nobel Prize for his discovery of ‘the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses’. Today, prefrontal leucotomy is derided as a barbaric treatment from a much darker age, and it is to be hoped that, one day, so too might antipsychotic drugs.

But what if I did tell people exactly what was going on? What if I valued my own peace of mind more than what other people think of me? Would I end up jobless, friendless, and loveless? Would I vanish entirely?

Not realizing that in an instant my privileged self brutally equated her entire identity to that of a street dog ~ (Pagli, Memoirs-The Imperfections of My Life)

Can you guys sing to me?

The world needs to accept introversion as normal. The world should stop associating introversion with mental illness.