1,815 Quotes About Mental-illness

Forgive me for being chipper, but despair is desperately dull.

Many people say that psychiatrists just want to push drugs. Well I seriously have to say, without medication, I’d be locked up in a VA hospital somewhere.

I’m afraid to see a psychiatrist about the voices in my head. She might know who they are.

The voices in my head that tell the other voices what to do are mean.

Psychiatric diagnoses are considered to be technical and bounded; you are either in or out. In contrast, a biblical perspective puts many interpersonal differences on a continuum: people may have more or less of something. This is relevant to sins, spiritual gifts, weaknesses, and character qualities.

I need them to be aware and present with me in the midst of the storm, not just tell me what to do.

I've grown up with an ethic, call it a part, that insists I hide my pain at all costs. As I talk, I feel this pain leaking out—not just the core symptom of BPD, but all the years of being blamed or ignored for my condition, and all the years I've blamed others for how I am. It's the pain of being told I was too needy even as could never get the help I needed.

An inner ease spreads inside me. Such is the power of acceptance and understanding from other people, the power of validation

Happiness is not a reward. It's a consequence. You have to work at it every day.