1,815 Quotes About Mental-illness

Many types of treatment claim to be about fixing the so-called problems of madness. The real problem is that certain ways of experiencing the world are seen as categorical threats— to normativity, to capitalism, to hierarchy, to the system itself. And our society's answer to a perceived threat is, of course, confinement.

Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel says we are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember. Who am I, then, if my memory is impaired?

The worst part of having a mental illness is that people expect you to behave as if you don't

I hear a siren and, if we weren’t already in a hospital, I would have assumed they were coming for nearly everyone in this room.

You are not a weak person, you are not a let-down, you are not a failure. People won't laugh at you. It is an illness. Just like cancer. Just like every other illness out there. It's a silent killer. It's just a constant battle with yourself.

Crazy is the space between what they tell you and what you know is true.

I realize that if love were the cure, I would have been healed a long time ago.

When an illness is viewed as inexplicable and impenetrable, people tend to react to it with one of two extremes: either they stigmatize it or they romanticize it.

It's not the gun you should be scared of—it's the crazy man with the gun