1,815 Quotes About Mental-illness

I attempted to be clear and straightforward in my approach to Dr Tate, deferring to his medical expertise and stating my desire merely to be helpful. Renee and Joan Frances, in turn, were clear and straightforward about their needs in a way that was new for them. Yet we were seen as manipulative multiple and puppet therapist. Renee had probably never been less manipulative in her life than when she was trying to reason with Dr. Tate.

Somehow this disorder hooks into all kinds of fears and insecurities in many clinicians.

Thoughts are just a different kind of bacteria, colonizing you.

The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your strategy has become a way of life.

Love, like madness, can only fill the models that society makes available.

What other than mental illness spurs normal people to write prolifically? The chief cause is not quite illness, but nearly: love, especially unhappy love.

I knew you were in charge of me but my mind broke on its own.

You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees bottomless pit in yours.

And you know the darkness beyond despair, just as intimately as you know the soaring heights. Because in this and all universes, there is balance. You can't have the one without facing the other. And sometimes you think you can take it because the joy is worth the despair, and sometimes you know you can't take it and how did you ever think you could? And there is the dance; strength and weakness, confidence and desolation.