Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was quite severe, leaving me deeply unhappy and frightened.
love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!
Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist.
You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one.
The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings'.
Moods should be heard but never danced to.
Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.
I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error.
Some view mental illness as a purely spiritual issue and deny the need for medication or other forms of treatment. Others view it as an illness with no spiritual aspect. I believe it's a combination of both.
With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that go from being too important to being not important at all.
I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness
I cling to nowhere until I fall - the crash of Nothing.
Writing my blog has saved me thousands on therapy.
While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness.
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
. . . I went through a very lethargic period. . . I was just sort of getting through every night and every day.
Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.