1,815 Quotes About Mental-illness

Not a true psychotic, she hoped. Just a fractured man who didn't want to give up the person he thought of as himself but who needed the release the darkness gave him." p75

There is an element of selfishness to this, I suppose. It feels pretty good to be able to so quickly help someone. That is, after all, one of the great emotional payoffs of medicine. That isn't to say that ECT is either a panacea or without flaws - but when used in the right way for the right purposes it's of great benefit, and condemning it because it isn't perfect would lead to more suffering and harm, no less.

Not all people with mental problems look like people with mental problems. Sometimes those who look smartest from outside are hiding the worst pain.

People suffering from mental illness don’t wish for the riches of the world. Their only wish is to get better.

I didn’t want to be sad, but I didn’t know why I was sad or how not to be sad or how to talk about it. I was broken. I felt broken. My body ached. My stomach hurt. I couldn’t sleep. Nothing was pleasurable. Every morning, I woke up knowing I’d failed before my feet hit the ground. At night, I’d lie in bed and wish for a terminal disease.

If I don't see you in the future - I'll surly see you in the pasture.

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

Church is for people who believe in things they can't see. Life for me is about seeing things I probably shouldn't believe in.

There’s only one difference between love and mental illness. Both are distorted versions of reality, except with mental illness you don’t have to fuck the thing making you ill. Love was something he’d come to regard as a branch of pathology.