Severe mental illness has been likened to drug addiction, prostitution, and criminality (37,38). Unlike physical disabilities, persons with mental illness are perceived by the public to be in control of their disabilities and responsible for causing ...
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
Tempting as it may be to draw one conclusion or another from my story and universalize it to apply to another's experience, it is not my intention for my book to be seen as some sort of cookie-cutter approach and explanation o...
I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
A significant number of people diagnosed with mental illness have psychic abilities not yet under control. They may have true mental illness as well, including faulty neurological wiring and chemical imbalance. However, some people have mental breaks...
Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.
I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.
Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.
I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.
I do believe that Jodi Arias shows a lot of signs of mental illness.
While binge drinking is a significant issue, it is likely that many members of the public would be surprised by its categorisation as a mental illness, particularly at the milder end." Public confusion caused by differing understandings of the term '...
My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took vacation jobs there as a nursing assistant. So I did get to see mental illness, but I don't remember conversations about mental cond...
If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us. --"The Content of the Psychose...
There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.
Successful writing is a slow, daily, meticulous form of mental illness.
We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
A proverb is like a herb to cure and curb any life's mental illness.
Take it from me, that kind of torment causes you to retreat to a place in your mind where you are so strong that nothing and no one can bother you. Or so you think! What you don't realize is that each time an incident occurs, you retreat inside of yo...
Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.
