I was depressed at a very young age - mental illness runs in my family, especially on the female side.

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

Most of the albums that have taken long have been related to illness and fatigue or producer problems.

Illness transforms the things you most fear into the things you crave and would hold onto if you could.

Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.

His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

I don't want people to be afraid of health or illness or mortality, because it's a natural part of life.

I know what mental illness looks like, and I know that if a person is not ready to get help, they won't.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

Everything is already healed, except in the dream of illness. Let the illusion go, in exchange for peace.

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

Stay focused on what is beautiful and abundant even as illness carves more and more of what you love away

I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.

I don't believe watching dreams but like to stick to reality. Reality is all about flood, hunger, illness.

I know what it's like to feel marginalized and defeated and humiliated by suffering from a mental illness.

The war on drugs is very, very real, and the war on helping people with mental illness is very, very real.

Very often your attitude about why an accident or illness has happened has an effect on your recuperation.

The phrase 'fake news' sounds too playful, too much like a schoolchild faking illness to get out of a test.

Illness, mechanicals, and injuries is not something you can 100% avoid; you can only try to limit the risk.

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.

Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously.

People accuse me of glamorizing mental illness. Looking back sometimes, that's true. But I don't feel guilty.

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

The sad truth is that millions of people with mental illness suffer stigma and prejudice, especially at work.

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

My fear is dying badly, through illness or injury. But what a glorious demise it would be to burn up in space.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

It would be absurd for me to diagnose Sarah Palin with a sprained ankle, let alone any sort of mental illness.

There has been a lot of media attention around the dangers of drugs used to treat mental illness on the fetus.

We cannot allow those with mental illness or record of hate or violence access guns and terrorize this country.

Mental illness is real, and I got them. I don't know if it's the multiple concussions or the lifestyle choices.

For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away.

I had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness.

Saying that you spend Christmas alone is, to most middle-class Americans, akin to confessing a terminal illness.

We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.

The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.

Haven't we all been taken aback when an illness suddenly causes the voice to crack and sometimes dry up completely?

As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.

There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression.

I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.

People don't realize how many of the homeless are single moms, and a lot of veterans, and people with mental illness.

I'm not one to complain about illness. I suppose I have a bit of a stiff upper lip. I just tend to get on with things.

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.

I decided to shift my energy and concentration into changing my lifestyle and diet and taking charge of my own illness.

While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.

I never imagined while going through this horrifying illness that I would write a book or that it could ever be a movie.

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