Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free—albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe.

The amount of sympathy you get from having an illness is paid out like a Ponzi scheme and psychiatric disorders are all the way at the bottom.

My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.

He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.

We have a mental health system that is dominated by political and hidden forces that keep us stagnated and unable to see real, lasting change.

Speaker says psychology has commandeered "everything hard" and partitioned it from Scripture with the assumption that its causes are biological

Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night.

There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul.

Can you admit on here that you have an affliction for millions of other people to see? Then that is great and a huge step towards your recovery.

The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.

John raised an eyebrow. “So you wouldn’t date someone like you?”“Oh, hell, no. I’m insane, but that would be nuts.

You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.

Dissociation is characterized by a disruption of usually integrated functions of memory, consciousness, identity, or perception of the environment.

It was an oddly satisfying idea to feel bereft as I left my mother this time. We only feel bereft when we’re deprived of something meaningful.

Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes.