#mental illness

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#every #form #four #friends #illness

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#biological #concept #condition #elucidated #evidence

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#itself #mental #mental illness #psychoanalysis #regards

I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#illness #just #life #live #mental

They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present. ↗

— Naomi Judd

#cause #honoring #illness #know #knowing

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#any #foot #ignorance #illness #just

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#illness #lot #mental #mental illness #people

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. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#about #became #being #book #died

Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#before #better #choose #decide #ever

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#illness #mental #mental illness #national #paranoid