1,815 Quotes About Mental-illness

If you fall for someone with a mental illness know that some days they won't be able to express love, they're too busy trying to breathe.

With DID patients, if they feel hostility or aggression they take it out on themselves with self-harm... They’re self-destructive and repeatedly suicidal, more so than any other psychological disorder. So that's what's typical – not this wild aggression, or stalking women [or robbery].- Dr Bethany Brand, on Billy Milligan and Multiple Personality Disorder (DID)

dear depressionyou are a swallowed island.a continental shelf of grief. an underwater prison.a fog holding the sky hostage and chasing away the blue...

People who have never dealt with mental illness will never understand know how legitimately triumphant it feels to decide to take a shower and then actually do it.

It was amazing the things a person could get used to when they really had no other choice.

What to do with life? Get out of bed, Derek. That’s what you do. You get out of bed, and you get yourself a cup of fucking coffee. That’s all you can do.

I wonder ... if people think of suicidal ideation as thoughts that are obviously sinister. If they assume the voice comes in a snake hiss or a demon's warped bass. Does it occur to them that it could sound like the friend who nudges you at a bad, crowded party and whispers, conspiratorially, "Hey, lets get out of here". Do [they] consider how well you have to know yourself to see that moment for what it is and whisper back, "You are not my real friend".

Telling a person who is depressed to have positive thoughts is the same as telling a sick person not to be sick. It doesn’t work.

She would like to say, Listen, Dr. Sue, deep down there is a thing inside me, and sometimes it swells up like the head of a squid and shoots blackness through me. I haven’t wanted to be this way, but so help me, I have loved my son.