Mental Patient Quotes

#1. And what does that signify to you? he said, perhaps forgetting that if she could speak truly to the world, she would not be a mental patient.

Joanne Greenberg

#2. It only cost Mitt Romney $76.6 million to defeat a serial adulterer and a mental patient in a sweater vest.

Andy Borowitz

#3. Sometimes the words against a selfish have to be sharp, straight and blunt; it is very much like after the failure of all medications to cure a mental patient the only option left to revive him now is to give him a shock treatment through an electric current.

Anuj

#4. You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one.

Marsha M. Linehan

#5. If you don't think a mental patient has the right to bring a sawed-off shotgun to the church where his ex-girlfriend is getting married, you're part of the problem.

David Sedaris

#6. Hey,"he said, taking in my disheveled appearance. "Why are you up so early?"
"Oh, I was just, you know, exercising."I jogged in place for a second before realizing that I probably looked like a mental patient.

Rachel Hawkins

#7. I feel like a movie star," Daphne said as the girls hurried downstairs. "You look like a mental patient," Sabrina remarked.

Michael Buckley

#8. We are, every one of us, like a wise guru in charge of a mental patient.

Jamie Catto

#9. The young and the old are defenseless against relatives who want to get rid of them by casting them in the role of mental patient,and against psychiatrists whose livelihood depends on defining them as mentally ill.

Thomas Szasz

#10. And people get so weird about mental illness, you follow the rules! You don't up a heart patient on a roller coaster, you don't put a mental patient on a hunting trip with you!

Christopher Titus

#11. If I ideally can, I'd do a comedy, and then I would do something where I'm a mental patient, and then I'd go back and do a comedy so I can continue to express myself in different ways.

Mircea Monroe

#12. 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

#13. If you expand the boundaries of mental illness, which is clealry what has happened in this country during the past twenty-five years, and you treat the people so diagnosed with psychiatric medications, do you run the risk of turning an anger-ridden teenager into a lifelong mental patient? (p. 30)

Robert Whitaker

#14. Sleep doesn't come easy when a broken twig conjures images of a hulking mental patient snapping the arms off children, over by the bin.

Craig Stone

#15. I naively believe that self-love is 80 percent of the solution, that it helps beyond words to take yourself through the day as you would with your most beloved mental-patient relative, with great humor and lots of small treats.

Anne Lamott

#16. I always wanted to play a mental patient. I was fascinated with playing crazy people in college, and I don't know if I ever quite perfected it.

Alison Brie

#17. true acting out is an expression of intense underlying affects without conscious awareness of them, not just another undesirable and difficult patient behavior

James A. Chu

#18. When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.

Karl Abraham

#19. Mental illness was a family secret. This patient had four children grow up in foster homes, and they never knew her. It was heart-wrenching for her granddaughter to find this out.

Sean Moran

#20. It was rare for a patient to readjust successfully to normal life after a period spent in a mental hospital.

Paulo Coelho

#21. When different identity states convey contradictory information and then have amnesia for what the other identity states said, the patient may be thought to be lying. This can appear to be characterological mendacity when it is not.

Elizabeth F. Howell

#22. This is not really me. I am not like this. I am like you. I am not a patient from a mental hospital. I am just an ordinary woman whose mind has gone temporarily wrong.

Sally Brampton

#23. People say mental hospitals are for the patients, in fact they are to protect society from them. They are justified in doing that. Society has to do what is best for itself.

Robert M. Pirsig

#24. The whole secret to mastering the game of golf - and this applies to the beginner as well as the pro - is to cultivate a mental approach to the game that will enable you to shrug off the bad days, keep patient and know in your heart that sooner or later you will be back on top.

Arnold Palmer

#25. The ethics of psychiatric therapy is the very negation of the ethics of political liberty. The former embraces absolute power, provided it is used to protect and promote the patient's mental health. The latter rejects absolute power, regardless of its aim or use.

Thomas Szasz

#26. We thought philosophy ought to be patient and unravel people's mental blocks. Trouble with doing that is, once you've unravelled them, their heads fall off.

Frederic Raphael

#27. Many doctors are now integrating 'spirit' with science and are beginning to realise that the mental and emotional state of a patient is the key to successful treatment.

Liz Hoskin

#28. Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.

Thomas Szasz

#29. Then the weeks rolled by in a sinister psych ward haze filled with white-coated orderlies and rocking whack-job patients torn straight from some old Jack Nicholson film, all anti-psychotic meds and padded lonely cells ...

Shannon Celebi

#30. I mention a paradox of psychiatry: mental illness is recognized by the patient's distorted thoughts, but treatment is largely indifferent to their content. (104)

Michael Greenberg

#31. Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.

Rosamund Lupton