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So much progress has been made with topics like mental illness and drug abuse and sexual identity.
Love is mental illness going in and mental illness coming out. In between, you do a lot of laundry.
I think the science around mental illness is always evolving. There's always new kinds of thinking.
Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.
When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was.
I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person.
I was depressed at a very young age - mental illness runs in my family, especially on the female side.
Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion.
Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.
I know what mental illness looks like, and I know that if a person is not ready to get help, they won't.
My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well.
I know what it's like to feel marginalized and defeated and humiliated by suffering from a mental illness.
Forty percent of the people who are being treated for mental illness are not addressing the physical body.
The war on drugs is very, very real, and the war on helping people with mental illness is very, very real.
I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.
... I went through a very lethargic period ... I was just sort of getting through every night and every day.
One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.
People accuse me of glamorizing mental illness. Looking back sometimes, that's true. But I don't feel guilty.
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.
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.
It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression.
I had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness.
It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know?
We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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.
We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings'.
... it is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person.
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.
You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head.
You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.
While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.
What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?
I don't know why I feel so crazy...I feel like I'm going through a stargate. Maybe it's the diet pills. Maybe it's Buddha.
You get such a kick and then it's all over. That's good ground for uncertainty and depression. I usually burst into tears.
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
I don't like the term 'mental illness.' I'd rather just say 'mad.' Just like I always say 'loony bin,' not 'mental hospital.'
I remember being in middle and high school and hearing Demi Lovato speak up about her mental illness, and that was comforting.
Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.
Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.
Physically, I'm healthy as a horse, always held up. But in the mental illness department, I got my share. It's just what I got.
I think people are interesting enough. People with mental illness, or just real people going through real circumstances in life.