Quotes About Mental health

Some people say I'm unique, that there aren't other people with schizophrenia like me. Well, there are people like me out there, but the stigma is so great that they don't come forward.

A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.

When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn't have what I needed there.

I went through an awkward phase with my body and was often ragged for being too thin. I didn't understand then why people were being so unkind, but I used it to make myself mentally stronger.

Nobody's angry all the time, unless you're a psycho.

Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.

Women who put on a few pounds after starting lithium sometimes say the cure is worse than the disease. The weight gain shoots them straight into depression.

In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space.

Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It's not like it just happens.

Women are hard on themselves.

Nowadays people consider it a disgrace to admit that they are not stressed.

I spent two yours of my life being anorexic, but I would never dream of throwing up - my God!

Going into therapy doesn't guarantee poop on toast.

They say that depression is anger you turn on yourself, and I think women do that.

What happens when these young men and women come home so scarred and so wounded? We are ignoring that fact. We're just shoving them under the carpet.

At bottom, antipsychiatry is still psychiatry. And it doesn't really address itself to women's problems.

Women attempt suicide more often because they want to become the priority of those they love rather than always prioritizing them.

The only people that can't handle the truth are those that suffer so much anxiety that they will live in denial, in order to prevent their illusion from being destroyed and feeling more anxiety.

I was satisfied that I had done my best. She was insane.

She shuffled with her head bowed, her dark eyes drifting to avoid contact, and she screamed in bed at night. (Dark City Lights)

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

I tried to help a shirtless man who was being arrested in Starbucks. He obviously wasn't right in the head, but the police thought I was trying to make things worse.

I'm bipolar, but I'm not crazy, and I never was. I'm stark raving sane.