1,815 Quotes About Mental-illness

Unfortunately, mental health is so misunderstood that some people think you have to be crazy to need to speak to a therapist.

He tried to sleep, but his head was filled with the faces of lunatics, their palsied hands, their shattered eyes.

A phenomenon that might seem only backwards or silly when expressed at a social level becomes madness at the individual level.

As smart as I am, it took a boy stuck in his house to teach me that sometimes it doesn't matter where you are at all. It only matters whos with you.

And at times I murmured the token phrase to the doctor, ‘When can I go home?’ knowing that home was the place where I least desired to be. There they would watch me for signs of abnormality, like ferrets around a rabbit burrow waiting for the rabbit to appear.

I wanted to be dead. No. That's not quite right. I didn't want to be dead, I just didn't want to be alive.

I honestly didn’t realize at the time that I was dealing with myself. But I suppose it’s true that I developed a therapy that provides the things I needed for so many years and never got.

Here's the hell of it: madness doesn't announce itself. There isn't time to prepare for its coming. It shows up without calling and sits in your kitchen ashing in your plant. You ask how long it plans to stay; it shrugs its shoulders, gets up, and starts digging through the fridge.

Treatment for people with disabilities and mental illness in prewar America reveals a profoundly ignorant medical establishment and educational community.