1,815 Quotes About Mental-illness

No two eating disorders are the same.No two individuals are the same.No two paths to recovery are the same.But everyone's strength to reach recovery IS the same.

Even though I have no answers, I understand that while mental illness changes Bill’s behavior and the way he deals with life, the man I have loved for so many years is still inside, even when I don’t recognize him.

There will always be people afraid of the monsters in the night. They are usually the ones that look for them because they have proven they exist in themselves.

As modern neurobiologists point out, the repetition of the traumatic experience in the flashbacks can be itself re-traumatizing; if not life-threatening, it is at least threatening to the chemical structure of the brain and can ultimately lead to deterioration. And this would also seem to explain the high suicide rate of survivor, for example, survivors of Vietnam.

i am loving myself out of the dark.

In the month of December I couldn’t get out of bed. I kept waking up at 6 P.M. and it was Christmas or New Year’s and I had to start drinking & eating.

My heart is sinking and my chest physically aches from the heavy sadness that it carries within.

Depression and anxiety are not feelings. Feelings return me to myself. Depression and anxiety are body snatchers that suck me out of myself so that I appear to be there but I’m really gone. Other people can still see me, but no one can feel me anymore—including me. For me, the tragedy of mental illness is not that I’m sad but that I’m not anything. Mental illness makes me miss my own life.

I assume you think by now that you would never do this. You tell yourself that I'm sick and you're well.We all have demons.Don't lie to yourself.