1,815 Quotes About Mental-illness

We are all unique in our minds in varied ways. I find pleasure In nature as you find it in alcohol. How then shall I call the other an addict while I myself I am a nature junkie?

i was once swallowed in a dark shroudof fear, pain, and self-loathingwhich i believed i couldn’t voicebecause if i spoke of my lonelinesswould it not prove my uselessness?light could not break the shadowsunless i asked for helpand when i finally became so losti reached out in desperationfor even the smallest guidanceevery tearful thought i had hiddenwas exposed in all of its falsehooddepression is not the problemit’s when we choose to conceal it-My Relationship with Depression

I have no ambitions. I only have obsessions.

All of them had some form of mental illness. Therefore, convincing them would not be difficult for a genius like him.

My mind feels like a race car on the track, getting faster and faster every time I pause to think or blink or try to focus on anything. Nothing can keep up to it, not the other cars, not my body, not anyone else in the bar. It’s a rush, pure exhilaration, and I’m having the time of my life. But instead of driving, I’m in the passenger seat, along for the ride, watching myself race around the track from my barstool.

I was the outsider in Fernhall House, but they were all outsiders really. Outside society. Outside time. You hear people say that those in asylums and care facilities are out of their minds. But in truth their minds are often the one thing they are not out of. Their whole being is sheltering behind walls of muscle and bone. Everything they are - and are not - exists within their sacrosanct headspace.

Illness is a story told in the past tense.

It would've been the perfect time to tell her. To tell anyone. To say, 'I'm drowning and I need someone, anyone, to be my life raft.' To say, 'I thought it had gone, and it hasn't and I'm so scared by what that means.' To say, 'I just want to be normal, why won't my head let me be normal?

Soon my sobs dulled to a whimper. Soon my breathing came back. Soon I was able to get off the carpet. Soon I'd meet my friends for college and pretend it hadn't happened.