Mental Illness Humor Quotes

We've eaten, but he looks hungry, and experience tells me that crazy takes a lot of calories to sustain. ~ Emil Ostrovski

I finally know how to love myself. I do not need anyone's approval or anyone to love me in order to love myself.

I am truly and wholeheartedly in love with myself - and I wouldn't have it any other way. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

All my life, I had this idea that if I could unravel the mystery that was my mother, then I could help save her. But it didn't really work. We were close, but she struggled with mental illness and alcoholism, and it was rough at times. ~ Jennifer McMahon

The reasons for Emma's illness and for her decision to allow life in, rather than die, are intertwined and involve the beginnings of her feelings of belonging, of safety and of competence to be in the world. ~ Carol Lee

I am stronger without you. I am not perfect, but I do know that I am amazing. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

Another of the difficulties of having DID is the denial. DID is a disorder of denial. It has to be because if the original person knew about the alters and felt their pain, they would either go crazy and be hospitalized permanently, or would die. ~ Eve N. Adams

Love is mental illness going in and mental illness coming out. In between, you do a lot of laundry. ~ Steve Lopez

Mental illness and magic are inextricably tied. ~ Unknown

You know what, you got this. You are going to turn your trials into your testimonies. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue! ~ Patrick W. Corrigan

The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health. ~ Stefan Molyneux

Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of loyalty to a particular nation, a sense of loyalty to a moral code, and strict adherence to concepts of right and wrong. Chisholm has been obsessed for years with the idea that instilling concepts of right and wrong, love of country and morality in children by their parents is the paramount evil. ~ John A. Stormer

Estefania was an observant mother, but not for the sake of her children. ~ Laura Gentile

I AM MAKING THE DECISION TO MAKE THE BEST OUT OF EVERYTHING AND EVERY SITUATION. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather than being willful, angry, irrational or simply tiresome. ~ Kay Redfield Jamison

The child psychologist's clinic: where imaginary friends go to die, where dreams go to burn, where creativity goes to drown. ~ Rebecca McNutt

I always have to put on my best face. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

I AM THE NARRATOR OF MY STORY. I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN WRITE THE NARRATIVE, THE BEGINNING, AND THE END OF THE CHAPTERS IN MY LIFE. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

I did my graduate research paper on the biochemistry of schizophrenia . Intellectually , I believe that most serious mental illness has a biological component and that the visible results are partly a personality reaction to a body that can't be trusted . ~ Talitha Day Fair

It would seem that the affects, biological needs, and forms of behavior most repressed in a given culture are the ones most likely to give rise to symptoms . [ ... ]
in our culture it is considered much more acceptable to have an organic illness than an emotional or mental disorder; this would influence the fact that anxiety and other emotional stresses in our culture so often take a somatic form. In short, the culture conditions the way a person tries to resolve his anxiety, and specifically what symptoms he may employ. ~ Rollo May

I am grateful that you saved my life. I am grateful that you didn't give up on me. I am grateful for you. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

Here's the hell of it: madness doesn't announce itself. There isn't time to prepare for its coming. It shows up without calling and sits in your kitchen ashing in your plant. You ask how long it plans to stay; it shrugs its shoulders, gets up, and starts digging through the fridge. ~ Marya Hornbacher

Except you cannot outrun insanity, anymore than you can outrun your own shadow. ~ Alyssa Reyans

I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression that has something to do with biorhythms. I'm talking about the kind of depressed that floats in upon you like a fog. You can feel it coming and you can see where it is going to take you but you are powerless, utterly powerless to stop it. I know now. ~ Alan Cumming

I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error. ~ David Mitchell

I am courageous, I am brave, I am fearless, I am in love with me. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she continued to write poetry, she would be all right. ~ Flora Rheta Schreiber

I needed some space to lay myself out, so that I could decide which pieces I wanted to pick up. ~ Fennel Hudson

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption. ~ Guy De Maupassant

The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info. ~ David Foster Wallace

I cannot love myself in the dark because I want to see the world. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

Slowly, inch by inch, I felt myself recovering. After a few weeks, the darkness began to recede; my appetite for life returned. Haven was wonderful; she understood and nursed me through these weeks until I felt strong enough to go out in public, to get on my bike again. ~ Tyler Hamilton

Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time. ~ Stephanie S. Tolan

Recovery doesn't mean putting your life on hold. Recovery means holding on so you can live your best life. ~ Brittany Burgunder

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown. ~ Jeanette Winterson

It just takes one wrong word, Darcio, and you could be the reason someone kills themselves because nobody is ever taught how to deal with pain especially when it can't be seen. ~ Simmy Kors

I needed to put two critical ideas together: that I could both be mentally ill and lead a rich and satisfying life. ~ Elyn R. Saks

The people I know who suffer from mental illness, sometimes they do connect you to what it is to be really human. There's a vulnerability there, there's something very potent. ~ Maya Forbes

Cancer Kid has the Make-A-Wish Foundation because Cancer Kid will eventually die, and that's sad. Schizophrenia Kid will also eventually die, but before he does, he will be overmedicated with a plethora of drugs, he will alienate everyone he's ever really cared about, and he will most likely wind up on the street, living with a cat that will eat him when he dies. That is also sad, but nobody gives him a wish, because he isn't actively dying. It is abundantly clear that we only care about sick people who are dying tragic, time-sensitive deaths. ~ Julia Walton

Cry wolf often enough and you eventually get eaten by the wolf, even if the wolf is you. ~ Kris Kidd

You see, people in the depressive position are often stigmatised as 'failures' or 'losers'. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. If these people are in the depressive position, it is most probably because they have tried too hard or taken on too much, so hard and so much that they have made themselves 'ill with depression'. In other words, if these people are in the depressive position, it is because their world was simply not good enough for them. They wanted more, they wanted better, and they wanted different, not just for themselves, but for all those around them. So if they are failures or losers, this is only because they set the bar far too high. They could have swept everything under the carpet and pretended, as many people do, that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds. But unlike many people, they had the honesty and the strength to admit that something was amiss, that something was not quite right. So rather than being failures or losers, they are just the opposite: they are ambitious, they are truthful, and they are courageous. And that is precisely why they got 'ill'. To make them believe that they are suffering from some chemical imbalance in the brain and that their recovery depends solely or even mostly on popping pills is to do them a great disfavour: it is to deny them the precious opportunity not only to identify and address important life problems, but also to develop a deeper and more refined appreciation of themselves and of th ~ Neel Burton