1,815 Quotes About Mental-illness

No one ever expects a man missing his limbs to perform the same as a whole person in normal society. Why do we expect the mentally unwell to perform equally to those without the handicap?

The existential psychiatrist R. D. Laing--a radical critic, like Brown, of received wisdom, and similarly inclined to see mental illness as a sane response to an insane world, even as a form of "shamanic" journey--described in one of his early books what he called the "ontologically secure" person.

Anxiety disorders cannot be summed up in a cute Facebook comic. Those of us who really suffer from these disorders are too afraid to talk about the truth behind the sickness—the rot in our own head.

You shouldn't talk to people about the future if you don't believe in one for yourself.

You hear a lot about the benefits of insanity or whatever - like, Dr. Karen Singh had once told me this Edgar Allan Poe quote: "The question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence." I guess she was trying to make me feel better, but I find mental disorders to be vastly overrated. Madness, in my admittedly limited experience, is accompanied by no superpowers; being mentally unwell doesn't make you loftily intelligent any more than having the flu does.

The only time it's hopeless is when you're dead! Long as you're alive, you can get better - you can make it better.

Sometimes, when you want to help a broken person, your attempts only remind them of their missing pieces.

I've learned to be comforted in the dark spot of my mind.

People with OCD including myself, realize that their seemingly uncontrollable behavior is irrational, but they feel unable to stop it.