1,815 Quotes About Mental-illness

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.

We shall therefore compare the concept of homosexuality as heresy, prevalent in the days of the witch-hunts, with the concept of homosexuality as mental illness, prevalent today.

Tis a mad world, my masters.

What we're seeing at the moment is people being radicalised or adopting Islamist, murderous Islamist ideology very, very quickly so that you have people that are not on the counterterrorism radar screen who then often, as a result of mental illness, will then attach themselves to this murderous ideology and then act very quickly.

Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it.

Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.

With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that go from being too important to being not important at all.

As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of the richest learning and humanizing experiences life offers.