1,815 Quotes About Mental-illness

They all think medicine should be magic, and they become mad at me when it's not.

the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness was one i should willingly give up....moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable reactions to what life has dealt....even though the depressions that inevitably followed nearly cost me my life.

I had officially joined the cacophony of sick mother fuckers.

Stevie woke the next morning, which was a good start. When things are bad, give yourself a point for everything.

The people we love get under our skin and crawl through our veins and fine their way into our heart. They choke up our blood flow and mess up our breathing and tangle themselves through our bodies like wire. Like razors, like fire.We remember them even when we don't remember them.We try and forget, but it's pointless.Even amnesia. Even comas and brain damage and traumatic shock.Whatever makes us not remember, we still remember.Our minds flounder like fish but our bodies...Our bodies remember.

You can live to be old or young, but you'll always have moments when you lose your head.

Inside my head is a jigsaw made of trillions and trillions and trillions of atoms. It might take a while.

And then I realized that my sister was trying to LIVE a romance novel. Man, that takes courage and imagination. Well, it also took some degree of mental illness, too, but I was suddenly happy for her. And a little scared. Well, a lot scared.

The 16 characteristics of psychopaths:1. Intelligent2. Rational3. Calm4. Unreliable5. Insincere6. Without shame or remorse7. Having poor judgment8. Without capacity for love9. Unemotional10. Poor insight11. Indifferent to the trust or kindness of others12. Overreactive to alcohol13. Suicidal14. Impersonal sex life15. Lacking long-term goals16. Inadequately motivated antisocial behavior