1,815 Quotes About Mental-illness

Today I am a lens, a pen, a gun."--p. 1 ...Before My Eyes...look for it on 2.11.14

Once you stumble... human nature is on you.

Billy covered his head with his blanket again. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental ward - always got much sicker until she went away...She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all.

victimnoun \ˈvik-təm\ 1. The moment you tell everyone you have a mental disorder, in order to excuse your behavior.

You can forgive yourself," Daniel had insisted."I don't think I can," she'd replied.He continued to hold her. "I know everything feels wrong, but you can be right again, Marisita,if you try as hard at it as you try with everything else.

I have a mind like a sieve, where sadness sits and happiness slips

My sadness is beautiful. It infuses everything I do. It is at the core of my identity and always has been, just as happiness is in some people. I refuse to be told that it's a flaw. I will not mute it with medications for the sake of society. I will hold it close to me and celebrate it rightfully while the rest of the world fails to see it for what it is and it will be their loss.

Words, just sometimes, can set you free.

I read and read and read with an intensity I’d never really known before. I mean, I’d always considered myself to be a person who liked books. But there is a difference between liking books and needing them. I needed books.