You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees a bottomless pit in yours.

~ Neal Shusterman

Neal Shusterman Mental Illness

They all think medicine should be magic, and they become mad at me when it's not.

~ Neal Shusterman

Neal Shusterman Mental Illness

Everything feels right with the world......and the sad thing is that I know it's a dream. I know it must soon end, and when it does I will be thrust awake into a place where either I'm broken, or the world is broken.

~ Neal Shusterman

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The baby was warm against my chest. I knew I was broken too. I wasn't like other people. I was scared and weird and anxious and sad lots of the time, and I didn't know why. My parents thought I was abnormal, I was pretty sure. They said I wasn't, but you don't get sent to a therapist if you're normal.Sometimes we really aren't supposed to be the way we are. It's not good for us. And people don't like it. You've got to change. You've got to try harder and do deep breathing and maybe one day take pills and learn tricks so you can pretend to be more like other people. Normal people. But maybe Vanessa was right, and all those other people were broken too in their own ways. Maybe we all spent too much time pretending we weren't.

~ Kenneth Oppel

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I begin to wonder if David was like me. Seeing monsters everywhere and realizing there aren't enough slingshots in the world to get rid of them.

~ Neal Shusterman

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The fatal weakness of most psychiatric historiographies lies in the historians' failure to give sufficient weight to the role of coercion in psychiatry and to acknowledge that mad-doctoring had nothing to do with healing.

~ Thomas Szasz

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It can't have been fun to live with somebody whose brain was under siege.

~ Darrell Hammond

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We cannot institutionalize helping the victims of personal disasters.

~ Thomas Szasz

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Each of these patients counts on us to help them to the best of our abilities. We have an obligation to them. We shouldn’t turn our backs on them and give up. It’s not fair to them, nor is it fair to ourselves.

~ Jason Medina

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The scariest thing of all is never knowing what you're suddenly going to believe.

~ Neal Shusterman

Neal Shusterman Mental Illness

Trauma destroys the fabric of time. In normal time you move from one moment to the next, sunrise to sunset, birth to death. After trauma, you may move in circles, find yourself being sucked backwards into an eddy or bouncing like a rubber ball from now to then to back again. ... In the traumatic universe the basic laws of matter are suspended: ceiling fans can be helicopters, car exhaust can be mustard gas.

~ David J. Morris

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And while a bald head and a looped ribbon were seen as badges of courage and hope, her reluctant vocabulary and vanishing memories advertised mental instability and impending insanity. Those with cancer could expect to be supported by their community. Alice expected to be an outcast.

~ Lisa Genova

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It got to the point where it became logical: if a woman was fiercely intelligent, outspoken and passionate, I’d look towards her arms for the scars. They were almost always there.

~ Sabrina Chapadjiev

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Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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I have suffered pains and torture of all natures. I have heard many say, I am a survivor. I am not in a boat in a sea of torture awaiting to be rescued. I am a Conqueror, I am a Victor...I am one with myself.I AM FREE!

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

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We all feel inadequate very often. It’s only when it gets chronic that it is disturbing to one’s emotions and can get out of hand and make you pretty damn miserable.

~ Taylor Caldwell

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Results of two independent factor analyses of the survey responses of more than 2000 English and American citizens parallel these findings (19,33):- fear and exclusion: persons with severe mental illness should be feared and, therefore, be kept out of most communities;- authoritarianism: persons with severe mental illness are irresponsible, so life decisions should be made by others;- benevolence: persons with severe mental illness are childlike and need to be cared for.World Psychiatry. 2002 Feb; 1(1): 16–20.PMCID: PMC1489832Understanding the impact of stigma on people with mental illnessPATRICK W CORRIGAN and AMY C WATSON

~ Patrick W. Corrigan

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You know how they say that if you think you might be going crazy, it’s proof that you’re not? Well, it’s a lie. One of many they tell you about mental illness.

~ Forrest Carr

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Successful writing is a slow, daily, meticulous form of mental illness.

~ Don Roff

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Etta, it could be everything, it could be nothing, what you’re making up. You shouldn’t let that bother you.

~ Emma Hooper

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Several themes describe misconceptions about mental illness and corresponding stigmatizing attitudes. Media analyses of film and print have identified three: people with mental illness are homicidal maniacs who need to be feared; they have childlike perceptions of the world that should be marveled; or they are responsible for their illness because they have weak character (29-32).World Psychiatry. 2002 Feb; 1(1): 16–20.PMCID: PMC1489832Understanding the impact of stigma on people with mental illnessPATRICK W CORRIGAN and AMY C WATSON

~ Patrick W. Corrigan

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Don't worry, everyone is mentally ill, they just haven’t figured out a name for yours yet.

~ Chris Sprudz

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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 'mental illness'.Jorm AF, Reavley NJ.Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2012 May;46(5):397-9. PMID: 22535288

~ Anthony F. Jorm

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I have spent years ... clinging to the understanding that Iwas a defective biological unit .... This may truly be a valuableperspective for those who observe mental illness, but forme, as a subject, this tree bore only dry and tasteless fruit ...I have a chemical imbalance; I really didn't feel thosethings.I have a chemical imbalance; I didn't really experiencethose things.I have a chemical imbalance; I didn't really thinkthose things ...Here is an insight! The entire human drama of love, suffering,ecstasy, and joy, just chemistry.

~ D.a. Granger

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Sometimes the people around you won't understand your journey. They don't need to, it's not for them.

~ Joubert Botha

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The Parents, as my mother and father refer to Mr. Finch and Mrs. Finch, are insisting it was an accident, which, I guess, means we're free to mourn him out in the open in a normal, healthy, unstigmatised way. No need to be ashamed or embarrassed since suicide isn't involved.

~ Jennifer Niven

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No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness.

~ Elyn R. Saks

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Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still

~ Charlotte Brontë

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I had people saying 'it's all in your head'. Do you honestly think I want to feel this way?

~ Sonia Estrada

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Denial and minimizing is often seen in genuine PTSD and, hence, should be a target of detection and measurement.

~ Harold V. Hall

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The central mechanism of the avoidance mechanism of PTSD is the ego defense of denial

~ Frank M. Ochberg

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There is clear evidence from internal investigations in the past that some raters actually see themselves as adversaries to veterans. If a claim can be minimized, then the government has saved money, regardless of the need of the veteran. Just recently, the press exposed an official e-mail from a high-level staff person who stated in essence that PTSD diagnosis was becoming too prevalent and offered ways to delay and deflect ratings in order to save the government money.

~ Taylor Armstrong

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Forgive me for being chipper, but despair is desperately dull.

~ Marya Hornbacher

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There may not be any romance to mental illness but who needs romance when the preferable route is agency? The prevailing conversation around mental health issues is agency and the lack thereof on the part of the mentally ill. But what do you do if you’re a paid-up member of the mentally ill populace in question? Do you curl up into a ball and give up? No, you look for solutions. Ultimately, it’s about keeping despair at bay and sometimes simple things like running, taking up a hobby, doing charity work, painting or, in my case, writing can be a galvanizing part of the recovery process. Keeping the brain and the body active can give life a semblance of pleasure and hope. This is what writing has done for me. I took every traumatic element of my condition and channelled it into something useful.

~ Diriye Osman

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Why do they always prescribe thyroid medicine to go with the mental illness cocktails they whip up?

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

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I’m afraid to see a psychiatrist about the voices in my head. She might know who they are.

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

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Genius by birth, Bipolar by design

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

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1 in 5 people have dandruff. 1 in 4 people have mental health problems. I've had both.

~ Ruby Wax

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Advances in biological knowledge have highlighted the potential chronicity of effects of childhood maltreatment, demonstrating particular life challenges in managing emotions, forming and maintaining healthy relationships, healthy coping, and holding a positive outlook of oneself.

~ Christine Wekerle

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The fear of the drugs running out is manageable-the fear of time running down isn’t.

~ Ann Marlowe

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