1,815 Quotes About Mental-illness
- Author Laura Anderson Kurk
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Uncommon anxiety came to us in common hours when other people were doing mundane things like taking out the trash or checking their phones. But there was nothing to be done for this. We couldn’t change who we were or what had happened.
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- Author Keary Taylor
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It felt like this was never going to end. The world wasn't going to stop crashing down until there was nothing left of me but dust.
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- Author Shepherd Hoodwin
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A significant number of people diagnosed with mental illness have psychic abilities not yet under control. They may have true mental illness as well, including faulty neurological wiring and chemical imbalance. However, some people have mental breaks because of psychic abilities they don’t know how to handle.
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- Author J.D. Salinger
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After I got across the road,I felt like I was sort of disappearing. It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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- Author Anne Freytag
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Bipolar I, Bipolar II, Zyclothymia, Rapid Cycling und gemischte Formen." Kurze Pause. Geschulter Blick. "Weißt du was Kristopher war?""Ja", sage ich, "mein Bruder.
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- Author Lailah Gifty Akita
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Madness is depressing illusion.
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- Author Neel Burton
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Other pressing problems with the current medical model [of mental disorder] is that it encourages false epidemics, most glaringly in bipolar disorder and ADHD, and the wholesale exportation of Western mental disorders and Western accounts of mental disorder. Taken together, this is leading to a pandemic of Western disease categories and treatments, while undermining the variety and richness of the human experience.
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- Author E.J. Plows
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If you can still wipe your own backside then life's not that bad!
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- Author Laura Gentile
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No one could decrypt a mother better than her own children, who had shared her body and therefore knew all of her secrets, anxieties, shortcomings, and buttons to push. Estefania feared nothing more than the betrayal of someone she accommodated and gave life to with her scarce resources.
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