#illness

When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you. ↗

— Marya Hornbacher

#madness #manic-depression #mental-illness #reality #life

Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of use is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#metaphor #life

As with many life-altering events, an autoimmune illness is almost guaranteed to cause you to re-evaluate your priorities. ↗

— Joan Friedlander

#chronic-illness #life

His relationship with illness was flirtatious; only a particularly attractive ailment could tempt him into bed. ↗

— Sam Byers

#illness #relationship

In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable. ↗

— Kevin Alan Lee

#government #health-care #health-care-system #humanism #medical

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#mental-illness #poor #poverty #rich #society

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#society #world #society

Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. ↗

— William James

#mental-illness

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions. ↗

— Joanne Greenberg

#hope #mental-health #mental-illness #philosophy #psychology

What is the world coming to when girls allow their hands to be kissed without gloves? That young people don't use proper protection these days is exactly why there are always so many colds going around. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #gloves #humor #illness #kissing