1,815 Quotes About Mental-illness

It’s not about being an emo or a goth. Depression has many faces, jester, co-worker who is always smiling, a friend who always seems to have everything figured out, or a family member who appears to sail through life effortlessly. I don’t think an image of a typical depressed person exists.

I think dealing with a mental illness is something worthy of being a superhero.

Lastly, I want to encourage others to share their stories. Share your story through whichever creative outlet you are most comfortable with. Don’t underestimate your story’s motivational capacity! To you, your story may feel like a compilation of failures, disappointments, and hardships, but to others it may be a source of inspiration, perseverance, bravery, and strength.

It is a rare person who can cut himself off from mediate and immediate relations with others for long spaces of time without undergoing a deterioration in personality.

His mind betrayed him and now we were all victims of the horrible deception.

One of these daysI’ll be okayOne of these daysI won’t feel this wayOne of these days

I can’t get out of my headI can’t get out of bedAll I feel is dreadI wish I was deadBut I will go on

It wasn’t the highs and lows of mania anymore, just the constant drone of pessimism and paranoia that were making it hard to focus on anything else.

I had assumed that a boy who loved me so intensely was full of happiness, love, and light so that he was free of his own demons and pain.My assumption was entirely wrong.