1,815 Quotes About Mental-illness

What sticks with me now is that this man said he needed to get to a hospital. He probably needed to reach his destination more than anyone else on the bus, yet he lacked the capacity to ride without getting kicked off. Maybe he reached the hospital eventually, and maybe he was connected with social workers and housing specialists who will help him transform his life. But I fear he got on another bus, and another bus after that, without going anywhere at all.

The worrying thing is that he was well aware of his slide, but didn't seem to want — or be able — to do anything to help it.

Rather than being medicalized or romanticized, mental disorders, or mental dis-eases, should be understood as nothing less or more than what they are, an expression of our deepest human nature. By recognizing their traits in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may be able both to contain them and to put them to good use. This is, no doubt, the highest form of genius.

Genius by birth, Bipolar by design

If every Genius has a touch of Madness, does every Normal person have a touch of Ignorance ?

Every one wants to be a Genius. But only the brave choose to go mad to get there...

Each of these patients counts on us to help them to the best of our abilities. We have an obligation to them. We shouldn’t turn our backs on them and give up. It’s not fair to them, nor is it fair to ourselves.

The fear of the drugs running out is managable-the fear of time running down isn't.

That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.